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[https://www.npr.org/2023/11/18/1194448925/congress-proportional-representation-explainer by Hansi Lo Wang 18/11/23 npr]

  With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer competitive elections, there are growing calls among some election reformers to change how voters elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

===== Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism =====

[https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/vaccine-autism-rfk-jr-how-science-proves-vaccines-do-not-cause-autism/ by Matthew Herper 3/2/25 STAT]

  Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve almost certainly read that before — probably hundreds of times. But many people do not believe it, perhaps because too often it is repeated without a real explanation of how we know that.

===== The Mekong is slowly dying. =====

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/3s2qsuikpf/mekong-the-last-chance-to-save-a-mighty-river by Laura Bicker November 2023 BBC]

  Mai takes a deep breath before disappearing below the muddy brown waters of the biggest freshwater lake in South East Asia. A few bubbles rise to the surface - the only sign that he is underwater, freeing his fishing net, which he had left hanging between trees in a flooded forest.

===== Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance =====

[https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=e1de6df8-03da-4cba-bdbb-519dc5bbaade by Jared Starr, Craig Nicolson, Michael M. Markowitz, Daniel Moran 17/8/23 ScienceOpen.com]

  Current policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase adaptation and mitigation funding are insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. It is clear that further action is needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and achieve a just climate future. Here, we offer a new perspective on emissions responsibility and climate finance by conducting an environmentally extended input output analysis that links 30 years (1990–2019) of United States (U.S.) household-level income data to the emissions generated in creating that income. To do this we draw on over 2.8 billion inter-sectoral transfers from the Eora MRIO database to calculate both supplier- and producer-based GHG emissions intensities and connect these with detailed income and demographic data for over 5 million U.S. individuals in the IPUMS Current Population Survey.  

===== Surprising Link Between Menthol And Alzheimer's Discovered in Mice =====

[https://www.sciencealert.com/surprising-link-between-menthol-and-alzheimers-discovered-in-mice by David Nield 30/1/25 Science alert]

===== Ancient Celtic tribe had women at its social center =====

[https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5258236/ancient-celtic-tribe-had-women-at-its-social-center by Ari Daniel 15/1/25 npr]

  In Britain, during the Neolithic Period (characterized by the introduction of agriculture) and the Bronze Age, which dated from about 4000 to 800 BCE, prehistoric human societies tended to be patrilocal. That's "where women move," says Cassidy. "They leave their home upon marriage, and they go join the village, the community of their husbands."

===== Bill Gates made waves with his statements on climate change. Here’s why he’s right–and what most people missed =====

[https://fortune.com/2023/11/16/bill-gates-climate-change-trees-environment-un-gabriel-labbate/ by Gabriel Labbate 16/11/23 FORTUNE]

  When Bill Gates speaks, people listen. His contributions to tackling global problems have been nothing short of extraordinary, from funding cutting-edge vaccine development to supporting an array of groundbreaking initiatives on climate change. At New York Climate Week in September, his perspectives on climate change did not go unnoticed–and even made waves.