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Saturday, July 13, 2024

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Happy weekend, subscribers!

This week, stay cool! Share a favorite story from

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with your network. We’re growing fast, and each share helps you and us expand and serve our terrific community even more!

Also, in case you missed some of our stories posted earlier this year, here are two we recommend for a read (or re-read) this weekend—Prompts and Circumstances by

Marcia Stepanek

, about the high-impact use of deepfakes and disinformation in the world's first AI-influenced elections— and Beyond the Borderline by

Bradley Schurman

, which explores how immigrants are remaking the economy.

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Inflation eased further in June, helping cement path to rate cuts (Washington Post)

Fed watchers increasingly think a first cut could come in September — so long as the data continues to cooperate.

This Ancient Technology Is Helping Millions Stay Cool (WIRED)

Cheap, low-energy evaporative cooling devices are keeping water, food, people, and even whole buildings cool across India.

China's Artificial Sun Generated a Magnetic Field, Clearing a Real Path for Fusion (Popular Mechanics)

It’s a crucial step forward in the quest for clean energy.

Nobody’s Moving to US ‘Climate Havens.’ The Federal Government Could Help (Bloomberg)

Millions of Americans are migrating to cities that are exposed to higher risk of extreme heat, flooding and hurricanes. We need a plan to turn them around, now.

Shirking From Home (Stanford Social Innovation Review)

Exploring recent assumptions about “presentee-ism” and gendered hostility to flexible work.

Goodbye, ‘soy boys.’ Hello, swole vegans. (Grist.org)

Three powerlifters and strongmen are lifting heavier weights with a diet that’s lighter on the planet.

Photographer Louis Stettner’s Real Lives—in Pictures (The Guardian)

Louis Stettner would take candid snapshots on the New York subway while pretending to adjust his camera. Now, a new monograph aims to bring the photographer’s work to a wider audience.

More food, less regulation: Project 2025’s alarming vision for agriculture (Salon.com)

SNAP cuts, little regulation, the project’s proposal for the Department of Agriculture is a race to the bottom.