Newsletter #288: What $200,000 buys you

This week:

• What IRA means for cars

• Centralizing data for the next pandemic

• A parched Earth

• Big Pharma is Big Mad about IRA

• Fingers crossed that Big Tech will protect democracy

Action Steps:

• Listen to a very-Ira episode of "The Coolest Show" podcast

• Check out this COVID dataset of sequences by variant and country

• Donate to bring clean drinking water to people in developing countries

• Call your senators to urge them to support the INSULIN Act

• Sign up to be paired with a cybersecurity expert

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• Take a nap you deserve it