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How heavy metals get into baby food—and what California is doing to help parents

Fast Company Tech

should soon be able to determine how much lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury are in the food they feed their babies, thanks to a California law, the first of its kind, that took effect this year. I believe the new California law offers a solid first step in giving people the ability to limit the intake of these substances.

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Fintech app Portabl raises $2.5M to help consumers securely store financial data

TechCrunch

He was born in Colombia, adopted, and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. He studied anthropology during his undergraduate years at Yale and always planned to attend law school. His first job out of university was as a paralegal, where he was tasked with building databases, fostering his love for information-gathering.

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Fireside Project manifests a $200K fund to improve access to careers in psychedelic health

TechCrunch

A lot of people are willing to break the law to use psychedelic substances, whether recreationally, as part of spiritual practice or as a tool to explore and work on mental health issues. I live in New Haven, Connecticut, and am very into meditation and yoga and mindfulness practices and healing community. Drugs are a sensitive topic.

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How panic over rumored school shooting threats went viral

The Verge

We can think about media panics going back several centuries, potentially, but at least over the past 100 years,” James Walsh, associate professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, who has written about social media and societal panic, tells The Verge. DO NOT share or forward the threat.

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University & Higher Education Advertising + Fundraising Study

Whole Whale

Online-focused institutions like Southern New Hampshire University and National University lead in advertising spend, investing heavily in student acquisition through marketing channels. FAQs From the University Ad Study How much did universities spend on fundraising in 2023? According to a 2023 study of 1,258 U.S.

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This Pennsylvania landfill sends radioactive waste into a nearby creek—and fracking has only made it worse

Fast Company Tech

[Photo: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News] The Max Environmental Technologies landfill has been out of compliance with requirements set under the Clean Water Act for most of the past three years and with the federal hazardous waste law, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, known as RCRA for short, since July 2023.

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Trump withdraws order targeting law firm and gets $40 million in free legal work

Fast Company Tech

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is withdrawing an executive order that targeted law firm Paul Weiss, saying the firm “acknowledged the wrongdoing” of an attorney who investigated the president and has pledged $40 million in free legal work to support the administration. On Monday the U.S.

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