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THE COBALT PIPELINE: Tracing the path from deadly hand-dug mines in Congo to consumers’ phones and laptops | Washington Post | September 2016 The world’s soaring demand for cobalt is at times met by workers, including children, who labor in harsh and dangerous conditions. An estimated 100,000 cobalt miners in Congo use hand tools to dig hundreds of feet underground
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Meet the North Pond hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for 27 years | Boing Boing | April 2017 Without any forethought or preparation, Christopher Knight walked into the Maine woods in 1986 and lived there in complete solitude for the next 27 years, subsisting on what he was able to steal from local cabins. In this week’s
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A Strong Case Against a Pesticide Does Not Faze E.P.A. Under Trump | New York Times | May 2017 Decades of research into the effects of chlorpyrifos strongly suggests that exposure at even low levels may threaten children. A few years ago, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency concluded that it should be banned altogether. Yet chlorpyrifos is still widely
