Get Ready for Season 6 of Simplify

Get Ready for Season 6 of Simplify

If September’s back-to-school mindset makes you crave ideas as fresh as your new stationery, then you’ll be glad to hear that Simplify, Blinkist’s hit podcast, will be back with season 6 on September 26. We’ve cooked up an incredible season full of guests and insights that will entertain and inform you, and maybe even change

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Wake Up! How Coffee Beans Can Fight Climate Change

Wake Up! How Coffee Beans Can Fight Climate Change

What are your plans this Friday? Meeting up with friends? Catching a movie? Saving the world? The last one isn’t as crazy as you might think. Maybe you’ve seen or heard about the climate strikes occurring a few miles away—or on other continents. Perhaps you’ve already circled it on your calendar, along with next week’s,

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FDA OKs New Pill for Type 2 Diabetes

FDA OKs New Pill for Type 2 Diabetes

A new pill to lower blood sugar for people with type 2 diabetes was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday. The drug, Rybelsus (semaglutide) is the first pill in a class of drugs called glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) approved for use in the United States. Before Rybelsus, the drug had to be

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Is There a Safer Way to Sterilize Medical Equipment?

Is There a Safer Way to Sterilize Medical Equipment?

In 2005, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considered banning ethylene oxide in new sterilizing facilities because of the cancer risk it posed to residents who lived around the plants. “We also considered prohibiting the use of ethylene oxide for new facilities, which would necessitate the use of an alternative sterilization process,” reads the proposed rule,

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