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An employee poses with a pipe used to carrying liquid CO2 on September 08, 2008 at the "Schwarze Pumpe" ("Black Pump") power station run by Europe's biggest power company Vattenfall in Werder near Berlin. In a similar manner, Summit Carbon Solutions, a spinoff of an Iowa-based agricultural company, recently announced it is developing a $2 billion pipeline project that will carry carbon dioxide captured from ethanol refineries scattered across the Midwest to a site in North Dakota where it will be pumped thousands of feet underground. (MICHAEL URBAN/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

Pipeline promises to put CO2 underground

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference about the opening of a COVID-19 vaccination site at the Hard Rock Stadium on January 06, 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

FL Republicans ready to stop rising seas

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, before the House Financial Services Committee. Yellen said the financial health of the nation's banking system has strengthened considerably since the 2008 financial crisis, in part because of tougher regulations passed by Congress in 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

The gender gap in economics is huge

Veronika Dolar - The Conversation
Supporters of President Donald Trump hold up their phones with messages referring to the QAnon conspiracy theory at a campaign rally at Las Vegas Convention Center on February 21, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

How to deprogram QAnon followers

Nicole Karlis
A nurse looks at test tubes after taking a blood sample from a patient suffering from Covid 19, in the Covid-19 department at the Bari Polyclinic on May 05, 2020 in Bari, Italy. (Donato Fasano/Getty Images)

CDC delays in mask advice cost lives

Christina Jewett - KFF Health News
Miniature people standing on a pile of coins (Getty Images)

Capitalism vs. public health

Matthew Rozsa
Wrestling fighters Jack Swagger (L) and Rey Misterio (R) fight during the WWE Smackdown Wrestling (Alfredo Lopez/Jam Media/LatinContent via Getty Images)

Why wrestlers are prone to dying young

Jonathan Gelber
(Getty/PeopleImages)

How COVID turns us into the unsick

Athena Aktipis, Joe Alcock - The Conversation
Meteor hitting earth (Getty Images)

What if an impact crater isn't that?

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/ImageTraveller)

DST could cause more sleep problems

Michael S. Jaffee - The Conversation
Philosopher Michel Foucault (Sophie Bassouls/Sygma via Getty Images)

Foucault's history-changing LSD trip

Mitchell Dean, Daniel Zamora
On the top of the Empire State Building, a pigeon contemplate NYC (Getty Images)

The pandemic makes birds more musical

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Spencer Platt)

The environmental perils of road salt

Anne N. Connor - Undark
Asteroid passing earth (Getty Images)

A massive asteroid grazes Earth

Matthew Rozsa
This artist’s impression shows how the distant quasar P172+18 and its radio jets may have looked. To date (early 2021), this is the most distant quasar with radio jets ever found and it was studied with the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. It is so distant that light from it has travelled for about 13 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was only about 780 million years old. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

The quasar that sees into the past

Nicole Karlis
Meghan Markle (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Markle and the silent health crisis

Nicole Karlis
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo holds daily media announcement and briefing at 633 3rd Avenue, Manhattan. Governor discussed Stabilization and Recovery Program for the state as well as uptick of positive infections in some areas of the state. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he will meet with Orthodox Jewish leaders to address COVID-19 clusters in communities downstate. He emphasized importance of wearing masks, social distances and enforcement of compliance. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Cuomo aide on nursing home scandal

Joe Sexton - ProPublica
Various self-sewn masks to protect against viruses and bacteria (Getty Images)

Cotton facemasks superior to synthetic

Matthew Rozsa
Couple wearing bandanas as they walk around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston on Apr. 6, 2020 (Getty Images)

I'm afraid of gaiter-wearers

Nicole Karlis
Grandparents and graduate (Getty Images)

More education equals longer lifespan

Matthew Rozsa
British-Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell PLC sign , commonly known as Shell (Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Oil companies claim to be feminist. BS

Alexandria Herr - Grist
Former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman speaks during an interview with a reporter outside a subway station on June 17, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

Bowman blasts standardized test mandate

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Alek Minassian, in custody for driving the van involved in a collision that injured at least eight people at Yonge St. and Finch Avenue on April 23, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Linkedin)

The weird incel/autism intersection

Matthew Rozsa
David Miller and Angie Hagans eat their favorite meal after waiting one year to dine inside Mos Smokehouse BBQ in downtown San Luis Obispo as San Luis Obispo county moved into the red tier that allows for indoor dining and gym reopening. Its one of our favorite restaurants. We ran over when we heard they were open, said David Miller. Mos Smokehouse BBQ general manager Nancy Snyder said, We were ready and excited to open. downtown on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 in San Luis Obispo, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Maybe we shouldn't be dining out at all

Nicole Karlis
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