✈️ Last week, a pilot was stabbed on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, and four passengers are being hailed as heroes for overpowering the attacker, giving the pilot first aid, and making it possible for a second backup pilot to take over and land the plane safely.
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A new pilot program in New York City is helping food carts swap dirty, loud generators for batteries
Street vendors all over the world use generators powered by fossil fuels to keep their carts running. Those generators not only contribute to climate change, but they contribute to local air pollution that can make workers sick — plus, they’re loud and can make doing business challenging.
Batteries are silent and come with no emissions, and a Brooklyn-based startup is helping food carts make the swap.
Thanks to a grant from the City Parks Foundation, 10 vendors in a Queens neighborhood are trialing a six-month pilot program where they’ll use the batteries for free, swapping them as needed throughout the day at nearby charging cabinets.
Why is this good news? Batteries have a lot of perks, but they come with a high startup cost and present charging logistics challenges. PopWheels addresses both drawbacks: renting out the batteries (in this case, offering it for free for a limited time!) and maintaining the charging infrastructure in convenient locations itself.
The WHO says global life expectancy has returned to pre-pandemic levels
According to the World Health Organization’s latest estimates, in 2023, global life expectancy reached 73.3 years — in 2019, it was 73.4 years.
The new data also show a long-term shift in causes of death, and in 2023, for the first time, communicable diseases accounted for less than half of all deaths in low-income countries, important progress for the “global epidemiological transition.”
It’s also important to note that healthy life expectancy, or the years lived in good health, is recovering more slowly, reaching 62.8 years in 2023 — in 2019, it was 63.2 years.
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