Issue 102 December 7th 2020

Politics

Republicans are complaining (again) about the budget deficit. Ignore them- Los Angeles Times

Alternative Energy

Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? And what can we do to use this global opportunity for green growth? - Our World in Data

Rivers could generate thousands of nuclear power plants worth of energy, thanks to a new ‘blue’ membrane | Science | AAAS

Photography

Top Shots From the 2020 International Landscape Photographer of the Year - The Atlantic

Health/Biotech

Food writer with covid copes with the fears of living with the disease - The Washington Post

Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing - The Atlantic

The story of the coronavirus in the state is one of government inaction in the name of freedom and personal responsibility.

Transportation

Stop Dissing Electric-Car Companies Already - Bloomberg

They now comprise half the worth of the world’s 10 most valuable automakers, and for good reasons.

Sustainability

Taylor Is Building Eco-Conscious Guitars With Suburban Trees - Bloomberg

Science

‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures

AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology | DeepMind

Environment

How Scientists Tracked Down a Mass Killer (of Salmon) - The New York Times

Culture

Who Will We Be When This Is All Over? | WIRED