Lest we Tibet

Climate change is making public health gains harder to achieve and undoing some of the world's hard-earned progress. / The New York Times [+]

In a quarter of counties in the United States, working-age people are dying at a higher rate than 40 years ago. / The Washington Post

Related: Some thoughts on how US hospitals undercut public health. / Undark Magazine

Unrelated: A map of the US if we'd lost WWII and been conquered. / Atlas Obscura

The World Bank says sub-Saharan Africa faces "a lost decade" of economic growth. / The Wall Street Journal [+]

A list of non-Western companies that are "outmaneuvering Silicon Valley for global domination." / rest of world

China announces that it will double the size of its space station, running since 2022. / Reuters

An eight-year-old boy is at the heart of Tibetan Buddhism's China fight. / The New York Times [+]

Cara Marsh Sheffler: There is no such thing as an ethical museum. / The Conversationalist

The Biden administration approves $9 billion in student debt relief. / Newsweek

Some notes on the backpacks preferred by 200 Manhattan high-school students when they returned to school. / New York Magazine

Ideas on new (and old) technology to use if you're building a heat-resistant city from the ground up. / Gizmodo

See also: Ten weird things you can buy online—chlamydia, human milk, bedbugs—and why you might. / Hillel Wayne

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