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[https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding by Matt Krupnick 3/6/25 PROPUBLICA]

  The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.

=====5 ways Trump's megabill will limit health care access=====

[https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5453870/senate-republicans-tax-bill-medicaid-health-care by Phil Galewitz 3/7/25 npr]

  The bill, passed in both the House and the Senate without a single Democratic vote, is expected to reverse many of the health coverage gains of the Biden and Obama administrations. Their policies made it easier for millions of people to access health care and reduced the U.S. uninsured rate to record lows, though Republicans say the trade-off was far higher costs borne by taxpayers and increased fraud.

=====A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading=====

[https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/07/kids-biking-decline/683377/ by Erin Sagen 1/7/25 The Atlantic]

  You’re less likely to catch that kind of scene today. Over the course of the 1990s, an average of 20.5 million children ages 7 to 17 hopped on a bike six or more times a year, according to data from the National Sporting Goods Association, a sports-equipment trade group. Only a few decades later, that number has fallen by nearly half, to about 10.9 million in 2023. Of those kids, according to the association, just less than 5 percent rode their bikes “frequently.”

=====Why induction stoves are better than gas=====

[https://www.popsci.com/environment/why-induction-stoves-are-better-than-gas/ by Justin Pot 1/7/25 POPULAR SCIENCE]

  Gas stoves have a reputation as being the best, mostly because of marketing, so you might think I’m only saying I “upgraded” to induction because of environmental conviction. And I’ll admit using less energy motivated the switch (I like saving money) but efficiency alone is not why I’m saying that induction is better.  

=====Destroying 50 years of women’s health samples is like ‘burning the Library of Congress’=====

[https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/01/health/nurses-study-trump-wellness by Sandee LaMotte 1/7/25 CNN]

    

For decades, researchers have been collecting samples from hundreds of thousands of women and tracking their health. The work has deepened our basic understanding of human health, but now the entire project is in danger.

=====Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down=====

[https://theconversation.com/mauna-loa-observatory-captured-the-reality-of-climate-change-the-us-plans-to-shut-it-down-260403 by Alex Sen Gupta 3/7/25 THE CONVERSATION]

  In 1956, United States scientist Charles Keeling chose Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano for the site of a new atmospheric measuring station. It was ideal, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and at high altitude away from the confounding influence of population centres.

=====How did these class rings stay put for decades? Santa Cruz County beach mystery delights ocean expert=====

[https://lookout.co/how-did-these-class-rings-stay-put-for-decades-santa-cruz-county-beach-mystery-delights-ocean-expert/story by Hillary Ojeda 3/7/25 LookOut

  When UC Santa Cruz ocean expert Gary Griggs read this week about a ring found on a local beach 28 years after it was lost in the water, he was struck by the similarities to another story he’s told his students for more than two decades about a long-lost ring found on the beach.

=====RFK Jr.’s Confusing Disdain for Medicaid=====

[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/medicaid-cuts-rfk-jr-maha/683406/ by Nicholas Florko 2/7/25 The Atlantic]

  For Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “Make America healthy again” is far more than a nice slogan. His cosmic purpose in life, he has said, is to fix the country’s health woes. “The first thing I’ve done every morning for the past 20 years is to get on my knees and pray to God that he would put me in a position to end the chronic-disease epidemic,” Kennedy told senators during his confirmation hearing in January. As health secretary, he has continued to emphasize his commitment to that goal. But yesterday, Kennedy cheered a move that is all but guaranteed to make America less healthy.

=====Wearables Aren't Going to 'Make America Healthy Again'=====

[https://lifehacker.com/health/wearables-wont-make-america-healthy-again by Beth Skwarecki 1/7/25 LIFEHACKER]

  Health and fitness wearables can do many things, but they really can’t do much to make people healthier—no matter what U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., says in front of Congress.  

=====Dr James Hansen Warns Climate is Heating up way faster than IPCC forecasts & he has the receipts=====

[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/28/2202159/-Dr-James-Hansen-Warns-Climate-is-Heating-up-way-faster-than-IPCC-forecasts-he-has-the-receipts?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by FishOutofWater 28/10/23 DAILY KOS]

  Dr. James Hansen is publishing a paper next week that warns of future warming at a much faster pace than the official IPCC forecasts. He has summarized his scientific paper In multiple recent communications, explaining the differences between his forecasts and those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.  The recent spike in global temperatures, coupled with rapidly declining reflected solar radiation and Antarctic sea ice extent support Hansen’s views.

===== We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come =====

[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning by Oliver Milman 19/7/23 The Guardian]

  The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1m years, prior to human existence, because “we are damned fools” for not acting upon warnings over the climate crisis, according to James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s.

===== The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies =====

[https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1117653/the-trump-administration-has-shut-down-more-than-100-climate-studies/ by James Temple 2/6/25 MIT Technology Review]

  The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.

===== Glaciers will keep melting for centuries even if warming stops, study warns =====