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Medical ethics organization lodges complaint over monkey deaths in Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip trials as company is looking for human volunteers to test its implants (english.elpais.com)

Neuralink was founded in 2017 and began animal experiments 12 months later. Last year, a Reuters investigation indicated that the company had slaughtered around 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs, and monkeys, which suffered from serious disorders before dying. But it wasn’t until September 10 that Musk...

Beyond Israel’s bombings: The lack of fuel and medicine in Gaza is putting at risk the lives of patients who depend on a respirator or an incubator (english.elpais.com)

In addition, of the 350,000 patients in Gaza, at least 9,000 have some type of cancer (principally breast, liver or lung cancer) and are now no longer able to receive treatment. Before the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, around 2,000 cancer patients traveled to the West Bank, Jerusalem and other parts of Israel to receive...

Aung Myo Min, a human rights minister in exile: ‘Russia is supporting the military regime in Myanmar’ (english.elpais.com)

"The Myanmar issue is related to the EU and European countries, because the Myanmar military has a strong relationship with Moscow. Russia isn’t only invading Ukraine… it’s also supporting the military regime in Myanmar, providing it with fighter planes and technology to kill its own people,” Aung Myo Min explains,...

Iran, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi suffers from blockages in three veins and lung pressure, but is being blocked from medical care over her refusal to wear a headscarve (english.elpais.com)

Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike Monday over being blocked along with other inmates from getting medical care and to protest the country’s mandatory headscarves for women, a campaign advocating for the activist said.

Suing Meta: What US prosecutors know about how the company harms children (english.elpais.com)

The coordinated action of these 41 U.S. states details in over 200 pages the reasons why Instagram (and, to a lesser extent, Facebook) is a harmful product for young people. In the lawsuit, the attorneys general explain that they are filing the case because the Meta’s “violations present a continuing harm, and the unfair...

Child weddings on the rise in Afghanistan: ‘Girls are getting married younger and younger, at 11 and 12′ (english.elpais.com)

"There is a clear link between the return of the Taliban in 2021 and the increase in child marriage, especially in urban centers, where, since two decades ago, there had been an evolution and families no longer felt they had to marry off their daughters as soon as possible, because girls were getting opportunities to work and...

Satellites: the new economic battle being waged 600 miles away from Earth (english.elpais.com)

It seems that space has become the playground of big tech billionaires. It seems that only Jeff Bezos can bring SpaceX owner Musk down from his cloud. “Amazon has enormous potential. And, in the end, the great competition comes down to the two magnates,” observes Stephane Terranova, the CEO of Thales Alenia Space in Spain....

Boost public and private investment in R&D to 4% of GDP: This is how Finland is looking for its next Nokia (english.elpais.com)

Research and development in Finland hasn’t yet recovered the cruising speed of 3.54% of GDP that it had in 2008, which reached such a high level thanks to the phenomenal contribution of Nokia’s research. According to Sari Multala, the minister of Science and Culture for the Nordic country, the current government has proposed...

On TikTok, the war in Gaza is a game (english.elpais.com)

One of the TikTok trends is to show the process of loading a projectile into a tank and firing it. Another is to put trance music to a video, along with the words “2-3, sha-ger.” This is the order that a military drone operator is given to drop a bomb, with the syllables separated so that the message is clear. The trend...

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