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US President Donald Trump signs an executive order regarding Medicare at Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center October 3, 2019, in The Villages, Florida. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump launches attack on Medicare

Diane Archer - Independent Media Institute
(BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)

AI machines struggle with common sense

Joey Velez-Ginorio - Massive Science
jackdaw birds on a tree in Davos (Getty Images/ AFP/FABRICE COFFRINI)

The bird that can tell humans apart

Nicole Karlis
(Getty Images)

Bugs, mold and unwashed hands

Marjie Lundstrom - FairWarning
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Climate change activists take part in the international Strike for Climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Trumping the future

Frida Berrigan - TomDispatch.com
A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

The unspoken word at the climate summit

Lisa Song - ProPublica
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks while introducing health care legislation titled the "Medicare for All Act of 2019" with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), during a news conference on Capitol Hill, on April 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

How the US could afford Medicare for all

Gerald Friedman - The Conversation
The famed "Tufa" formations of Mono Lake, near Lee Vining, CA, will slowly be re-submerged into the briny water where they were formed by an underwater chemical reaction between submerged freshwater springs and salty lake water June 22, 2000. The fragile limestone formations became exposed to the air as a result of the diverting of five inflowing streams to quench the thirst of the city of Los Angeles, 350 miles to the south, since 1941. Two decades of environmental activism to restore the water level and save the threatened ecosystem of one of the oldest lakes in North America, more than 760,000 years old, resulted in the implementation of a stream restoration plan in 1998 which will ultimately return the lake level to within 25 feet of its 1941 elevation. (David McNew/Newsmakers)

For some nematodes, sex is a trinary

Nicole Karlis
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This Sept. 9, 2016 photo shows rush hour traffic moving along the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) (AP)

Effects of killing CA pollution rule

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
In Search of The Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes (Basic Books)

The tree that predicts our survival

Nicole Karlis
In this photo taken May 19, 2015, meat labels are seen at a grocery store in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (AP)

The problem with red meat

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
FILE - In this April 23, 2014, file photo, Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at Vape Store in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) (AP)

California targets vaping locally

Ana B. Ibarra - The Conversation
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(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Are blood pressure and dementia linked?

Kenneth McLeod - The Conversation
British statesman Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) painting a beach scene from the Surf Club in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Hobbies, not work, are key to happiness

Ryan Holiday
(Getty/agrobacter/Google)

"Climate change" searches heat up

Kate Yoder - Grist
Cleaning up: On August 31, 2018, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced that the United States Air Force has started up an additional granular activated carbon filtration system to capture historic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination caused by the use of firefighting foam at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base near Oscoda. (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy)

The fight against “forever chemicals”

Michael Green - Truthout
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A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

California’s "carbon market"

Maron Greenleaf - The Conversation
Artist's concept of the hypothetical Planet Nine (Caltech/R. Hurt [IPAC])

Is Planet 9 a tiny black hole?

Nicole Karlis
Young woman on her phone in bed at night (Getty Images/Cerro Photography)

How Facebook profits from loneliness

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Climate change could threaten wheat crop

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-183121p1.html'>Robert Kneschke</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Vaccine misinformation on social media

Ana Santos Rutschman - The Conversation
An image from Russell Trall's "The Hydropathic Encyclopedia" (1843)

Of Freud, therapeutics, and posture

Nathan Kravis - MIT Press Reader
MONTREAL, QC - SEPTEMBER 27: Led by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (C), young activists and their supporters rally for action on climate change on September 27, 2019 in Montreal, Canada. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in what could be the city's largest climate march. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images) (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

“Eternal economic growth fairy tales”

Jennifer Ellen Good - The Conversation
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (AP/Andrew Selsky)

Will Oregon decriminalize all drugs?

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
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