Eradicating malaria, employer-paid babysitting, cleaning rivers through bubbles and AI
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In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re talking about how China successfully eradicated malaria, an employer-subsidized childcare approach in the US, and a student-led initiative to clean rivers through AI and robotics.
The Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) provides intravenous drug users access to clean syringes as well as methadone programmes, housing and other social services.
Insectta addresses food waste crises through maggots and has developed technology to obtain biomaterials from their exoskeleton that could replace synthetic thickeners and preservatives in cosmetics.