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The Carbon Footprint of Major Travel Methods
According to data from the Climate Policy Initiative, climate finance, which includes funds for both adaptation and mitigation, needs to increase at least five-fold, from $1.3T in 2021/2022, to an average $8.6T annually until 2030, and then to just over $10T in the two decades leading up to 2050.
But the same cannot be said of the developing world, where debt, inequality, and poverty reduce the ability of governments to act. And this is where carbon credits can play an important role. According to analyses from Ecosystem Marketplace, carbon credits help move capital from developed countries, to where funds are needed in the developing world.
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The new class war: A wealth gap between millennials
Even as the vast majority of millennials struggle with student debt, low-wage service-jobs, unaffordable housing and low savings, the millennial elite are surpassing previous generations. According to the study, the average millennial has 30% less wealth at the age of 35 than baby boomers did at the same age. Yet the top 10% of millennials have 20% more wealth than the top baby boomers at the same age.
The study finds that millennials â typically defined as those between the age of 28 and 43 today â have faced repeated financial headwinds. Coming of age during the financial crisis, they have lower levels of homeownership, larger debts outweighing assets, low-wage and unstable jobs, and lower rates of dual-income family formation.
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So you’ve found research fraud. Now what?
Harvard dishonesty researcher Francesca Gino faked her research. But she still has a lot to teach us.
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Are Ultra-Processed Foods Really all that Unhealthy? - Scientific American (No paywall)
Processed foods have been blamed for many health problems, but dietary research is tricky and nuanced
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Why Feathers Are One of Evolution’s Cleverest Inventions - Scientific American (No paywall)
Fossil and living birds reveal the dazzling biology of feathers
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People Keep Secrets Because They Overestimate Harsh Judgments - Scientific American (No paywall)
Research suggests that people tend to exaggerate how critically they will be viewed if they reveal negative information about themselves to others
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Social Media Reveals How Freeways Damage Social Ties - Discover Magazine (No paywall)
Data from X (formerly Twitter) shows that freeways still choke social ties more than half a century after they were built
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Can't Afford a House? Buy a Piece of One Instead - WIRED (No paywall)
In a chaotic housing market that has shut many buyers out, fractional home ownership and investing trends are taking off.
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An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that's so good it's scary
Synthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real.
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Here's the defense tech at the center of US aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)
This is what the priorities in the $95 billion spending package tell us about four military technologies and the way they’re reshaping how war is fought.
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