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Washington Post and no paywall: “They are part of an AI moon shot, driven by an escalating U.S.-China war over dominance in the field. The projects are starting to transform landscapes and communities, sparking debates about what our energy systems and environment can sustain. The price includes increasing power costs for everyone and worrying surges …
SciLight: “Reading is more than just entertainment. When you open a book and begin reading, your brain doesn’t simply process words—it transforms. Research using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revealed that reading activates multiple brain regions and creates lingering neural effects. A 2020 study found that increased gray matter in the left superior temporal …
Pro Publica: The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds: “The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies, …
Welcome to COLD.DC.GOV, the District’s one-stop resource for hypothermia season. The District is committed to ensuring that people experiencing homelessness have access to shelter from November through March when unsheltered residents are at greatest risk of hypothermia and other cold-weather injuries. During hypothermia season, the District issues alerts, increases shelter capacity, and extends outreach and …
bioGraphic: “Scientists and conservationists in the U.S. Midwest are working to stop industrial herbicides from drifting onto the region’s remaining hardwood trees. The symptoms were strange. They were the same across multiple oak species—white, swamp white, black, red, post, shingle, chinkapin, blackjack, and pin. Leaves thickened, elongated, and contorted into grotesque shapes—cupping, puckering, curling, and …
The Hechinger Report – Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack. “Inauguration Day was a time of hope for the MAGA faithful who watched President Donald Trump take his second oath of office in the Capitol rotunda. But less than a mile away, …
Daily Yonder: “Nearly 19 million rural Americans live in states with the most restricted access to abortion.Compared to their urban and suburban counterparts, a greater share of the rural population lives in states with the most restrictive abortion legislation, according to my analysis of data from theAbout 46% of nonmetropolitan, or rural, Americans live in …
Bloomberg’s Jealousy List for 2025 – token access [no paywall], a collection of journalism admired by the magazine’s writers and editors. “For an industry that’s perpetually facing the parallel challenges of diminishing reader trust and declining advertising revenue, the media business sure delivered in 2025. There were way too many podcasts, documentaries, in-depth investigations and …
Washington Post: “A dozen former leaders of the Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday that plans for a stricter approach to vaccine approvals risk undermining the nation’s ability to fight infectious diseases and could threaten the health of vulnerable Americans. In the New England Journal of Medicine, [subscription req’d – title is A Threat to …
The New York Times: What Happened: Trump plans to shut down the 115-year-old Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, the country’s largest USDA research hub, and scatter its programs, staff, and collections across multiple states. Scientists and farm groups warn the relocation will upend critical research on pollinators, plant diseases, food safety, and crop resilience. Why It …
LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 5 – The fifth in a series of articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting what government resources, data and datasets been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access and significantly …
Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking, November 30, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links …
