The Download: China’s Energy Nostalgia and the Dilemma of Love vs. Immortality

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Gigi Kwik Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, explains the consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to force a health department focused on studying deadly infectious diseases to cease operating.

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The flawed logic of rushing out extreme climate solutions. Early in 2022, entrepreneur Luke Iseman released a pair of sulfur dioxide–filled weather balloons from Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, hoping they’d burst miles above Earth. This act was essentially a small, DIY instance of solar geoengineering, which proposes that the world could combat climate change by releasing particles that reflect more sunlight back into space.

Entrepreneurs like Iseman invoke the stark dangers of climate change to explain their actions, even if the effectiveness of their interventions is uncertain. However, experts caution that urgency does not grant permission to overlook the inherent dangers or bypass necessary scientific processes.

—James Temple

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• The oldest woman in the world, 115-year-old Ethel May Caterham, is the last known surviving subject of Edward VII.
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• Thor Pedersen spent almost a decade traveling the world without flying.
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