Serim Tarcan
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Serim Tarcan
Physicist and chemist Marie Curie on the connection between fear and knowledge:
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
the hope lies with the Arctic’s “green” minerals, which global warming is making more accessible. They include cobalt, graphite, lithium and nickel, important ingredients in electric-car batteries; zinc, used in solar panels and wind turbines; copper, required for all sorts of things electric; and rare earths, crucial to many types of green and mil... See more
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the world at large, causing ice to shrink by an area the size of Austria each year. Since the 1980s the volume of ice has fallen by 70% or more. The Arctic’s first ice-free day may occur before 2030.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were
... See more“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.”
— Neil Strauss
The generic drug supply chain sprawls across the globe and is pretty opaque. Manufacturers are required to report to the FDA when there’s a disruption that could impact supply, but the details aren’t always shared with the public and can be protected as proprietary information
paradox with generic injectables in particular: an intensive manufacturing process with very low profit margins.
In an FDA analysis of 163 drugs in shortage from 2013 to 2017, generic sterile injectables made up roughly half of the sample
Only about 30% of API manufacturing facilities that supply ingredients for drugs for the US market are themselves based in the US. The rest are spread across places like India, China, and the EU