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Ramez Naam
(Books: Nexus Series / The Infinite Resource. Teach @SingularityU. Climate / Energy Innovation Wonk. Optimist.)
The New York Times
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Walt Bogdanich
– Nov 27, 2:50 PM
When Purdue Pharma agreed last month to plead guilty to criminal charges involving OxyContin, the Justice Department noted the role an unidentified consulting company had played in driving sales of the addictive painkiller even as public outrage…
The New York Times
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Lisa Friedman
– Nov 27, 11:13 AM
WASHINGTON — President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency was rushing to complete one of its last regulatory priorities, aiming to obstruct the creation of air- and water-pollution controls far into the future, when a senior career…
Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died. He was 46. Hsieh's family confirmed his death tonight in a text message…
The New York Times
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Reed Abelson
– Nov 27, 10:16 AM
In excruciating pain with lesions on her face and scalp, Tracey Fine lay for 13 hours on a gurney in an emergency room hallway. All around her, Covid-19 patients filled the beds of a hospital in Madison, Wis. Her nurse was so harried that she could…
Of all the messes President-elect Joe Biden is tasked with cleaning up, the climate crisis is the most high stakes. If aggressive decarbonization doesn't begin soon, climate scientists see little chance of preventing permanent ecological…
