Taking Stock: Things rising
Sahel water rising & Great Green Wall growing | 3 minutes on the Sudan genocide | New drug-resistant, city-loving malaria | America's growing tick problem | AI escape artists & crack mathematicians
Taking Stock Newsletter
Curating science news on the state (and art) of livestock and agricultural development in poorer countries. For better lives and lands. Weekly (mostly).
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Taking Stock: AI in real life
AI and the Africa Gap | AI and CRISPR | AI and good science (and scientists) | Meeting new antimicrobial resistance targets | Ebola update | Goat brains after headbutting
Taking Stock: Heated up
AI oversight | El Niño is here | Livestock boom | Gaza's farms | Homemade cell | Ebola treatment trial | Vaccination shortfalls in livestock | Dolly the sheep at 30 } Climate finance | Chicken die-off
Taking Stock: AI 'warp-speed' science?
The scaling frontier in food systems | Claude Science: An AI workbench for scientists | Operation Warp Speed 2.0 needed for vaccine development | Lessons of the eradication of rinderpest
Taking Stock: Health of lands and people
Restoring Ethiopia's landscapes | Electrifying Africa | Threats to global food markets | Calamitous, and remote, ancient plagues | Life and death in treating Ebola | Migrant and global health
Taking Stock: BIG biomedical breakthroughs
New breakthroughs for cancers, obesity, rare diseases, high cholesterol, hepatitis B ... | Vast fungal networks | Ominous ocean 'cold blob' | Trading compassion for efficiency in factory farming
Taking Stock: Surreal suffering
Surreal suffering from food, fertilizer, & fuel scarcities as the Iran War drags on| The fly in the screwworm | Looming El Nĩno | Ebola contact tracing | AI goes public | Climate update
Taking Stock: Baby busts
The surprising baby bust in India (and the world) | The rise of agritech funding | Pointing AI at the right problems | Cells killing pathogens from 'within' | The way we treat pigs is sin
Taking Stock: Ebola is back, bigtime
Ebola rising (out of control and out of time) | Demographics as destiny | School meals for Eastern Africa
Taking Stock: Gender norms
Tackling gender norms | Humanitarian relief disaster | German aid | Preparing for the next pandemic | Ebola on top of Hantavirus | GenAI insights