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🍼 After two years at a plateau, the U.S. infant mortality rate dropped last year. Experts point to a vaccination campaign against RSV as one potential reason for the decline, as it can be particularly dangerous for infants.
🍨 Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen was arrested at a Senate hearing for protesting the country's response to the war in Gaza, saying that "Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the U.S."
🎫 The Biden administration's ban on so-called "junk fees" just went into effect, and Ticketmaster said it will start displaying the full price of a ticket as soon as people start shopping.
Tech & Innovation
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A design lab invented a first-of-its-kind 3D-printed wheelchair for kids — and is giving them away for free
The team at MakeGood NOLA, a New Orleans-based adaptive design lab, has made something that can transform the world for disabled children: the world's first fully 3D-printed wheelchair.
The lab's design is "modular and easy to make," and fully compatible with a regular 3D printer anyone can have in their home. And once the prototype is completely finished, it will be available as a fair-use download that anyone can use for free.
Because of its modular design, the wheelchair can be put together without any tools or glue. And if any part of it breaks or is damaged, users can simply re-print the single piece they need.
Why is this good news?The average pediatric wheelchair can cost thousands of dollars. And when children grow and their needs evolve — or a wheelchair gets damaged — those costs multiply.
Less than one year after dams and reservoirs were removed, wildflowers are blooming along the Klamath River
Four dams and three reservoirs were removed from the Klamath River as part of the world's largest dam removal project that wrapped up last year.
Already, the surrounding environment is showing remarkable signs of recovery with wildflowers blooming along the now free-flowing 420-mile river near the border of Oregon and California.
The return of local flora is thanks to a crew of primarily Yurok tribe members who began collecting seeds from native flowers and trees in 2019, growing them in nurseries, and producing more flowers and seeds to prepare for the "over 2,000 acres that needed revegetation."
Why is this good news? After the dams were built between 1918 and 1962, the surrounding ecosystem started to collapse, and by 1997, coho salmon in the river — once the third-largest salmon fishery in the country — were listed as endangered.
Local tribes like the Yurok have been fighting for decades for their removal, and to see the surrounding ecosystems already recovering thanks to their efforts is inspiring.
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The US FDA approved the country's first at-home cervical cancer test as an alternative to the Pap smears
One year after it received "breakthrough status," the Teal Wand has officially been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, making it the first at-home alternative to the Pap smear in the U.S.
In addition to offering a "much preferred experience" to the dreaded and often painful traditional cervical cancer test, the Teal Want also aims to increase screening rates by making it more convenient. Tests like this already exist in countries like Australia and Sweden.
The approval follows a U.S.-based study that found the at-home screening was just as effective as the one done in a doctor's office. It also found that women overwhelmingly preferred to self-screen at home, and said they'd be more likely to stay up-to-date.
Why is this good news? Every year, about 13,000 cervical cancer cases are diagnosed, with more than 4,000 dying from the disease — a figure that also has a large racial gap, with Black and Native American women more likely to die from cervical cancer than white women.
And while rates have dropped dramatically since the Pap smear became more common, about a quarter of women in the country are still behind on their screenings — the Teal Wand is likely to help lower that even further.
After farmers sued the administration, the USDA is putting climate change information back on its website
When President Trump took office, the administration deleted web pages that contained information that farmers say helped them make time-sensitive decisions about business risks related to climate change, like heat waves, droughts, floods, and wildfires.
The purge included resources like the U.S. Forest Service's "Climate Risk Viewer," which included maps showing how climate change could impact national forests and grasslands.
A group of farmers sued the administration over the deletion, and now the Agriculture Department is restoring the information, including pages on federal funding and loans, forest conservation, and rural clean energy projects.
Why is this good news? Climate change is impacting all of our lives, and farmers feel this perhaps most intensely. They need accurate, up-to-date information on how climate change-fueled extreme weather events are impacting their livelihoods — and ultimately, we *all* need them to have that in order to literally have food to eat.
Illinois returned 1,500 acres of stolen land to the Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation
A law signed by the governor of Illinois transferred the 1,500-acre Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area to the Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation, keeping a long-overdue promise to the tribe's leaders.
The land was promised to the tribe's leader in 1829, but was then sold to white settlers by the federal government 20 years later, when then-Chief Shab-eh-nay and his people left for several years to visit family in Kansas.
While it's not the original soil that was stolen, the boundaries of the original 1,280-acre now comprise hundreds of acres of privately owned land, including a golf course. Returning that land would result in an unending legal battle.
Why is this good news?The theft of Native lands, stolen to create the U.S. and generate private wealth for white people, is at the root of countless systemic injustices. Beyond being legally and morally the "right" thing to do, returning stolen land is critical to the health and survival of Native people, the planet, and really, all of us.
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