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Education

‘If there’s a free alternative, I’ll eat healthily’: how Sweden devised brilliant school meals

Today at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

A pilot scheme where students eat nutritious breakfasts using donated surplus food builds on the ‘folkhem’ welfare model to boost health and sustainability

Students at Mariebergsskolan, a secondary school in Karlstad, Sweden, make their way to the canteen to grab a juice shot. This morning’s options include ginger and lemon, apple, golden milk, lemon and mint, or strawberry and orange....

Science/Tech

Revisited: How to save the Amazon episode three: ask the people that know – podcast

Today at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to the question the journalist Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how to save the Amazon?

In the final episode of this three-part series from June 2025, Jon encounters a radical new view of the Amazon’s history being uncovered by archaeologists. Far from an uninhabited wilderness, the rainforest has been shaped by...

Health

What Scientists Are Learning From Brain Organoids

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via New York Times

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom.

Health

Obesity Drugs May Drop to as Little as $150 a Month

Yesterday at 19:06 PM, via New York Times

President Trump announced a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to lower prices on hugely popular weight-loss drugs for Medicare, Medicaid and American patients who pay with their own money.