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2025-11-03 @ 11.55.47 ∈ In English
Is vaping less harmful than smoking, and does it help people quit?
[The] summary is quite simple: many health bodies suggest that vaping is much less harmful than tobacco. While they advise against it for young people or non-smokers, they do recommend it as a “quitting tool” for smokers for the health benefits of switching.
2025-08-25 @ 16.24.22 ∈ In English
Global inequality is huge — but so is the opportunity for people in high-income countries to support poor people
When we think of global inequality, it's easy to picture “the rich” as someone else — those with garages full of sports cars or taking private trips to space. But the richest tenth of the world includes us and likely many others who don’t intuitively think of themselves as “the rich”.
2025-07-03 @ 21.03.42 ∈ In English
2025-06-09 @ 19.21.15 ∈ In English
2025-05-12 @ 9.31.51 ∈ In English
Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying?
Japan, Sweden, and Finland are […] among the best, even when we adjust for reporting inconsistencies. The other Nordic countries — Denmark and Norway — also have very low mortality rates. Other countries, such as South Korea, perform extremely well when we look at deaths in the first month of life, but tend to fall behind the top performers when deaths in the following 11 months are also included.
2024-10-10 @ 11.13.23 ∈ In English
2024-07-27 @ 10.58.45 ∈ In English
200,000,000 observations on iNaturalist! · iNaturalist
This week iNaturalist passed another big observation milestone: 200,000,000 verifiable observations! It took iNaturalist 14 years to reach 100 million and just 2 more years to reach 200 million. […] Let’s take a closer look at these observations as 200 dots where each represents 1 million observations.
