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An RAF C-17 aircraft is bound for Nepal loaded with humanitarian aid supplies for victims of the Nepal earthquake. (Photo by UK Department for International Development)

Tesla’s battery and the coming revolution in energy storage

As was widely expected, Tesla announced that it is offering a home battery product, which people can use to store energy from their solar panels or to back-up their homes against blackouts.

Sydney Morning Herald

Will Tesla’s battery change the energy market?

Nature

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Should you buy a Tesla home battery?

Detroit Free Press

Nepal quake: Death toll exceeds 7,000, airport closed to big jets

Runway damage forced Nepalese authorities to close the main airport Sunday to large aircraft delivering aid to millions of people following the massive earthquake.

CBC News

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101-year-old man among quake survivors found In Nepal

NPR

How to negotiate the problem of women and men negotiating

Could banning salary negotiations for new employees reduce gender bias in the workplace?Men currently negotiate more often and more aggressively than women and tend to land higher salaries.

TIME

The mystery of gardening in metro areas: tuning into signs, experimenting a little

You don’t have to garden for long to realize that every gardener has a unique story to tell. Soil and weather can change.

Albuquerque Journal

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Billionaire: Buying elections is charity

Hedge-fund tycoon Tom Steyer claims that spending millions to elect pro-environment Democrats is in the spirit of a Giving Pledge he signed.

Daily Beast

Kathmandu’s single-runway airport makes aid delivery challenging

Kathmandu‘s Tribhuvan International Airport has just one runway, and that’s slowing down delivery of earthquake relief aid, NPR reports.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

HUMAN RIGHTS

Boko Haram: Nigerian army ‘frees another 234 women and children’

Another 234 women and children have been rescued from Boko Haram militants in Nigeria, the military has announced.

BBC

Do human rights really matter in international relations?

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom raised the sensitive issue of human rights violations in Saudi Arabia, but her comments did not reveal anything the world was not already aware of.

Huffington Post

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Republic of Congo government bans face-covering veils, refugees sleeping in mosques

The president of Republic of Congo’s Islamic High Council says the government is banning women from being fully veiled in public to prevent extremist violence.

FOX News

CSI Refugee Center Expects Influx of Syrians

Times-News

As British election nears, class politics lingers

In the 2015 election campaign, the issues of class and privilege are never far away from the surface as politicians strive desperately to show they’re in touch with the “ordinary” voter.

The Economic Times

Paul Weller slams bland British politics

U.S. News & World Report

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Toddlers and tech: Devices hinder development

It’s not just the time a child spends with technology, but the time moms and dads spend on their devices, that can delay a child’s development and limit language skills.

WHIO-TV

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Turning off technology is about mental wellbeing – not becoming a digital hermit

Guardian

Tyson Foods plans to cut antibiotic use in chicken flocks

Tyson Foods intends to stop using human antibiotics in its domestic chicken flocks by September 2017, the company said, and will explore doing the same for its beef, pork and turkey operations.

Portland Press Herald

Call for US chicken farmers to improve welfare, cut antibiotic use

Poultry Site

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

Lives of three babies rescued by 3D-printed, growth-flexible implants

3D printing has come to the rescue of severe cases of a childhood disease in which the windpipe is softened, leading to collapse of the airway and breathing failure.

Medical News Today

Nine ways to bring simplicity back to your home

Living simply isn‘t simple. In fact, it’s complicated. So a recently released book — “Keep It Simple,” which weighs in at 176 pages — reminded me.

Denver Post

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Chandigarh-based NGO plans to check human trafficking in Nepal

A city-based NGO, Salaam Zindagi, has shifted its focus to something that a common man will hardly imagine: saving homeless children of the neighboring country from human trafficking.

Times of India

At nonprofit organizations, a lack of regulation invites failure

For years, regulators have exercised little scrutiny over non-profit and non-governmental organizations. That’s likely because there’s an assumption of moral authority and good will about such organizations.

Good Magazine

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

US, Honduras sign agreement to promote agricultural development and trade

Through the Food for Progress Program, the U.S.D.A.’s Foreign Agricultural Service will provide the government of Honduras with 30,000 metric tons of U.S. yellow corn and 18,000 tons of U.S. soybean meal.

The Prairie Star

US, Honduras trade deal to promote agricultural development

A new trade deal between the U.S. and Honduras is expected to promote agricultural development.

AgWired

ENVIRONMENT

Environment Canada predicts hot summer and potential for severe weather

After a long winter and a cold spring, there were finally signs of summer on Friday. Environment Canada released its summer forecast and is predicting it will be a hot one.

CTV

Officers: Illegal pot farms pose threat to environment

In the face of a statewide trend toward growing numbers of marijuana farms, Californians now are confronting the environmental impacts of illegal pot cultivation.

The Davis Enterprise

Photo of the Day

Italian police officers survey damage after demonstrators protested Milan’s Universal Exposition, an international technology summit, on May 1st. (Photo by FEDRA Studio)

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