The plants used to make the world’s best mezcal are disappearing | Soaring demand is draining Mexico of its wild agave (wapo.st)
How to talk to an AI (wapo.st)
An ordinary human’s guide to getting extraordinary results from a chatbot like ChatGPT...
Scientists warn invasive pests are taking a staggering toll on society (wapo.st)
The authors of a major new U.N.-backed report say invasive species are costing the world more than $423 billion a year...
Why Mexico City’s thirst is causing it to sink: The demand for water in Mexico’s capital is draining its underground aquifers — and fueling some of the fastest subsidence rates in the world. (wapo.st)
U.S. sends Ukraine seized Iranian-made weapons (wapo.st)
The Pentagon has provided Ukraine with thousands of Iranian-made weapons seized before they could reach Houthi militants in Yemen, U.S. officials said Tuesday. It’s the Biden administration’s latest infusion of emergency military support for Kyiv while a multibillion-dollar aid package remains stalled in the Republican-led...
China’s quest for human genetic data spurs fears of a DNA arms race (wapo.st)
A deadly tick-borne epidemic is raging. Dogs are key to ending it. (wapo.st)
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Canada’s raging fires have burned the equivalent of Alabama (wapo.st)
Large blazes in the Northwest Territories have forced evacuations and military deployments....
A British ‘Star Trek’ fan is building a massive USS Enterprise model (wapo.st)
U.S. blacklists spyware companies, citing security threats (wapo.st)
Intellexa and Cytrox were added to a federal “entity list” that prohibits American companies from engaging in certain trade activities with them
Most House Republicans who backed Trump challengers cruised to primary victories (wapo.st)
The climate refugee crisis is here | Catastrophic flooding in southern Brazil has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Many say they won’t go back. (wapo.st)
A Belgian port seized tons of cocaine. Criminals tried to take it back. (wapo.st)
Belgian customs officers seized three times as much cocaine in the port of Antwerp last year as U.S. customs and border officials seized in all of the United States
Game of clones: Science is immortalizing Argentina’s top polo horses (wapo.st)
the extent to which this polo-obsessed nation has already fundamentally transformed the sport and the nature of horse breeding was evident on the field at the Argentine Open in Palermo in late November. As the players and the clones watched a video montage memorializing the late original champion mare, her name flashed across...
Professors have a summer assignment: Prevent ChatGPT chaos in the fall (wapo.st)
AI chatbots have triggered a panic among educators, who are flooding listservs, webinars and professional conferences to figure out how to deal with the technology...
Myanmar’s military said it bombed ‘terrorists.’ It killed children. (wapo.st)
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No ‘Oppenheimer’ fanfare for those caught in first atomic bomb’s fallout (wapo.st)
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Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town (wapo.st)
Claudia Sheinbaum is likely to be Mexico’s next president. Who is she? (wapo.st)
Mexico City’s water ‘Day Zero’ may come even for the wealthiest residents (wapo.st)
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Yet another dubious election deadline maneuver, in Florida (wapo.st)
In the Amazon, a new way to live off nature (wapo.st)
But now a smattering of solar panels across 12 villages in a couple of Ecuador’s deeply forested eastern provinces are making Canelos’s vision materialize. Every morning, before dawn, his people pass around a bowl of wayusa, a traditional drink made from a local plant that helps bring their dreams into focus. In them, they...
U.S. close to deal with Israel and Hamas to pause conflict, free some hostages (wapo.st)
Philippine court acquits Nobel laureate Maria Ressa of final charges (wapo.st)
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