Zambia: Is the US trading HIV treatment for resources?

The US is reportedly leveraging health aid to gain access to Zambia's critical minerals. Millions depend on US funding for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria treatment. Yet Zambia is hesitant to agree.

Deutsche Welle
Scientists Are Trying to Mine Seaweed

It’s full of minerals that could speed along the green-energy transition.

The Atlantic

@elizkolbert this is why #federalism is BAD

Allowing #Earth's fate to be decided in myriad little localities filled w/ NIMBY's, #science deniers, #ConspiracyTheory / #Misinformation peddlers & idiots is only recipe for disaster

Don't want your view "ruined" by wind farms? Check yourself & your shallow, malignant #narcissism, you should be stripped of all #voting rights

#Democracy definitely has its limits regarding #ClimateEmergency

#Nationalize all #farm lands, #resouces are too important

r/papertowns

r/papertowns: Papertowns is dedicated to well-crafted pictorial maps, detailed panoramic cityscapes, broad aerial vistas, intricate bird's-eye …

This strikes me as a REALLY useful resource for DMs, both to inspire plots and as a cool type of map to show your players. https://www.metafilter.com/184917/Panoramic-maps-at-the-Library-of-Congress

(Note, there are more links in the comments which is why I didn't link directly to the LOC page)

#Resouces #TTRPG #Historical #SuppressedTransmissions

Panoramic maps at the Library of Congress

The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict cities and towns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero...