When the science is ready but the money isn't

People with schizophrenia face a uniquely brutal combo of impaired thermoregulation, medication side effects, and social stigma that makes them the single highest-risk group for dying in extreme heat. (WIRED)

The federal government just paid $4 billion to “cancel” offshore wind projects that were already financially dead. Government efficiency is alive and well. (Heatmap)

🌏 Brazilian scientists are producing millions of special mosquitos in a lab, and then releasing them to help fight deadly tropical diseases that continue to spread as the world heats up. (The New York Times)

Coral polyps use tiny hair-like cilia to whip up their own oxygen currents, but past a certain water temperature the system backfires and the coral essentially ends up suffocating itself. (Quanta Magazine)

Turns out brain aging isn’t a slow, steady shrink like we thought. There’s a sudden midlife invasion where blood-derived immune cells hijack your brain’s original microglia, which might explain a lot about Alzheimer’s risk. (Ground Truths)

A new study says universal healthcare would save the US $1 trillion and 114,000 lives every year, by cutting drug prices, administrative bloat, and fraud, not from cutting care. (Yale School of Public Health)

Some context for why it’s so hard to find a doctor: primary care gets less than 5% of US health spending while burnout drives a third of primary care docs to quit. (Your Local Epidemiologist)

The claim that the COVID vaccine increases miscarriage rates is false. Actual, extensively replicated research says COVID vaccination during pregnancy is not linked to increased miscarriage risk. (The 19th)

The cyclospora outbreak tied to Mexican-grown lettuce is pushing Black families to support Black-owned local farms they trust, turning a food-safety scare into a moment for rebuilding food sovereignty. (Capital B)

Are AI data centers really that bad for your local water? It depends — but some hyperscale AI campuses can slurp up to 5 million gallons a day, and the worst impacts often hit the small towns least equipped to handle them. (Gizmodo)

If we apply the logic that cleaned up smog and deforestation to animal welfare, as countries get richer, factory farming might get less brutal — if the sheer number of animals farmed didn’t keep swamping the gains. (Works in Progress)

🌎 Sick or miscarrying livestock waste all the feed, water, and land that went into raising them without producing any food, meaning healthier herds could be a genuine, underused climate lever. (The Conversation)

AI Overviews have gutted click-through traffic so badly that major publishers are now planning as if Google traffic is already zero, leading to a slow, structural rewiring of how the internet works. (The Ringer)

Deepfakes get the headlines, but the real risk of AI in elections is embedded in voter rolls and ID-matching systems, such as the Indian algorithm that wrongly flagged voters for deletion at a 93% failure rate. (Rest of World)

At least 50 law enforcement officers have been caught misusing license-plate-reader networks like Flock to stalk women. (The 19th)

Google trained a model on 100,000+ hours of sign language data to let Deaf and hard-of-hearing users sign directly into their phone’s camera. (Silicon Angle)