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😮💨A sigh of relief, London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is linked to improved lung growth in children.
🫣Editor's note: We know we said Luton weirdly. We're sorry.
"A recent study spanning 15 countries found that only 39 percent of U.S. grandparents say they see their grandchildren at least once a week—lower than every country except Japan," writes TPN member @arthurbrooks.
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💉The FDA has approved a generic form of the twice-yearly HIV prevention drug, Lenacapavir.
😮The current branded version costs more than $28,000 annually in the US.
👏The generic version will cost $40 per year in 120 low and middle income countries.
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🌳The Daily Dose via @UN 🌳
Across 149 countries, 623 million acres are currently under restoration.
🤔How big is that?
😮“Today, we are witnessing the makings of one of the largest movements for nature in recorded history,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Program.
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🧠 Recent findings confirm that the adult human brain can form new neurons, a topic of decades-long debate that holds massive potential for conditions such as Alzheimer’s or stroke if scientists can harness the process.
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🚀@NASA has announced that it's sending three uncrewed scientific missions to the moon.
☄️The first is a sophisticated seismometer, which will listen out for moonquakes and meteorite impacts.
🧊The second will hunt for signs of ice that can be turned into potable water, breathable oxygen and rocket fuel.
🌋The third will investigate a subterranean lava tube as a possible location for a base.
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🤰The Daily Dose via @NPR 🤰
In 2020, only two US states covered doulas under Medicaid.
Today, 28 of them do.
🤔What do doulas do?
👏Unlike doctors or midwives, doulas don’t make any medical decisions or deliver babies, but keeping moms calm during childbirth can help move labor along and lead to fewer medical interventions, like C-sections.
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"The tech lords want regulation?" writes TPN member @baratunde.
"Okay. Let’s give it to them."
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😎3 Things That Went Right This Week😎
🔬 Those with the ultra-rare condition FOP (fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva) finally have an effective treatment.
🚫 Mink farming will end in Denmark by August 2029
🖼️ AI is the newest tool helping the Italian police track down stolen artwork
👇Need more? Read on!
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😮💨📉The Daily Dose via @CIDRAP 😮💨📉
Between 1990 and 2023, the global whooping cough mortality rate fell by 62%.
🤔How come?
💉Access to immunization programs grew globally.
🧐Is it all good news?
☹️Nope, there are still parts of the world that need stronger routine immunization and access to care like Sub-Saharan Africa, which accounted for roughly 65% of estimated pertussis deaths in 2023.
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🪐 Everyone knows that there are nine eight planets in our solar system, plus Pluto, a dwarf planet . . . right?
😮Wrong!
👀There are actually five dwarf planets, plus a just-discovered potential sixth that had been hiding out in the Milky Way.
wgbh.org/news/local/2026-10-…
👀This week in the What Could Go Right? newsletter we're talking about the last 10 days.
🗳️Serbia, Brazil, Israel and the US all had elections and,
barring Israel, where a government has yet to be formed, pro-democratic forces have delivered a rout.
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🇨🇴📉The Daily Dose via @Co1ombiaOne 🇨🇴📉
Colombia's monetary poverty rate has fallen to a record low of 28%, according to the National Administrative Department of Statistics.
🤔How did that happen?
👇Several factors contributed:
1) Growth in labor income
2) Minimum wage increases
3) The expansion of certain social transfer programs
4) Moderating inflation
5) The contribution of remittances sent by Colombians living abroad
colombiaone.com/2026/06/16/c…
🇩🇰Denmark is saying "Farvel!" to mink farming.
🙅♂️Once the largest producer of mink fur in the world, the nation will close its last farm in August 2029.
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🥹A plastic pouch that costs less than a dollar is saving thousands of women from dying in childbirth.
“We have not had one death from postpartum hemorrhage since we started this,” said Binta Garba, who has been the head nurse in the labor ward at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital for seven years.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/healt…
👯The Daily Dose via @squirrelnews_en 👯
According to the first Global Girls' Index put together by Plan International Germany and @IFHV_Bochum, girls' health improved in 178 out of 192 countries between 2000 and 2023.
🤔What kind of improvements were made?
⚰️One of the most significant changes was the decline in mortality among girls. The rate more than halved falling from nearly one death per 800 girls to approximately 1 per 1,700.
📉Also the birth rate dropped from 1 in 31 girls giving birth in 2000 to 1 in 48 in 2023.
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