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Lab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away, scientists say
Quest to create viable human sex cells in lab progressing rapidly, with huge implications for reproduction
Glossary
 Biologists are advancing fairly fast towards being able to make egg or sperm cells from anyone's tissue. Any two people, of whatever sex and age, could make a fertilized ovum that could potentially develop into a baby. If one of the parents is female and has a functioning womb, perse could carry the baby. (However, most of those couples would not
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‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app
Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging
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We oppose DRM. | Defective by Design
 Musicians are starting to organize boycott of Spotify, mainly about how it doesn't pay most musicians. But they don't seem to recognize the injustice Spotify does to every listener: such as making them identify themselves (by payment systems) and imposing DRM. I won't submit to those injustices, so I have never used Spotify and never will. Out,
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The Hidden Reason Why Restaurants Are Getting Worse
How one company’s market dominance has wrecked the food industry.
 The giant corporation Sysco dominates the food distribution business in the US, and is using this to mistreat truckers and restaurants. Its success has driven many US restaurants to buy food of lower quality. I don't see a reason to distinguish between "organic growth" and mergers as paths to over-concentration. Paying attention to that is based on trying to judge over-concentration as "fair" or "unfair", but that
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The Guardian view on Labour targeting nature: the problem isn’t snails, but a broken housing model | Editorial
Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes buil...
 Starmer Labour is showing off how it abandons environmental protection to smooth the way for all sorts of construction projects.
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‘Cruellest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail
Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin ...
 *"Cruelest forms of torture": freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail.*
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Chicago TV producer’s arrest in Ice raid ‘alarming and horrifying’, lawyers say
Attorneys for Debbie Brockman, released with no charges, deny agent’s claim she ‘threw objects’ at border patrol car
 Federal thugs violently arrested TV reporter Debbie Brockman as she was walking to a bus stop, and accused her of throwing things at them. Apparently she had not actually done that, because they filed no charges.
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How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster
A14 in Cambridgeshire promised biodiversity net gain of 11.5%, but most of the 860,000 trees planted are dead. What went wrong?
 A project to plant over 800,000 trees along a new road in England failed drastically. It is not clear why, but it is clear that the project was done carelessly. I have to wonder whether the contractor responsible was made to pay damages for this failure. I suspect the answer is no, and that is enough to explain why the project failed, though not in detail.