Like metal from plants.
More than a million children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi have received at least one dose of the first anti-malaria vaccine. / France24
Turkey makes a broad push into Africa in search of markets, resources, and diplomatic influence. / The Economist
Recent floods that ravaged South Africa made for one of the country's worst natural disasters. / EcoWatch
Your weekly white paper: Given a recent spate of military coups, Senegal's peaceful holding of elections is a bright spot for civilian politics. / Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Related: Some thoughts on state- and peace-building on the African continent. / Twitter
Nine US cities, led by Los Angeles, are generating more solar power today than the entire country did a decade ago. / Grist
James Bridle: If we can farm metal from plants, what else can we learn from life on Earth? / The Guardian
In 2020, guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers. / BBC News
Thousands of LGBTQ students and friends go silent to protest discrimination. / BuzzFeed News
Kyle Chayka: The point of Twitter of late seems to be continuing a debate over "the abstract question of who can say what to whom, and where." / The New Yorker
Kaitlyn Tiffany: Doxxing once defined a category of behaviors. "Now it expresses an emotion." / The Atlantic
See also: Barack Obama's speech to Stanford graduates about disinformation. / Medium
Former pop stars and rockers—Suzanne Vega, Billy Bragg, Terence Trent D'Arby—describe how it felt when the crowds went elsewhere. / The Guardian
Previously unpublished, Lawrence Weschler visits the Natural History Museum with Oliver Sacks. / Orion Magazine
Hand mnemonics were once commonplace—to learn language, teach music, memorize systems, and calculate time. / Public Domain Review
A remembrance of American raving and a visit to Austria's Freetekno movement, where dancing and drugging goes to an extreme. / Astra Magazine
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