"A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO)." Each dose is only $2-4 (4 doses/person) and 100 million doses/yr are already lined up to be produced.
How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson. "We are dealing with not one but two unreliable narrators: Musk and Isaacson himself."
Using NLP to find similar phrases to "champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends". Results included "focus for my real friends, real cuss for my faux friends" and "metrics for my real friends, real tricks for my meh friends".
The new words added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary last month include rizz, cromulent, vector graphics, rewild, jorts, non-player character, jump scare, finsta, beast mode, and thirst trap.
UNESCO Just Named 42 New World Heritage Sites. "Among the newly inscribed group are an archaeological cemetery site in South Korea, a roadside inn in Iran, and a famed hop-growing region in Czechia."
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