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Today, you\u2019ll learn about a new drug that could help you safely lose up to a fifth of your body weight, a new, non-hormonal birth control pill that is made for men, and how drones may hold the key to reforestation.

Weight loss five times faster.

• \u201cDiabetes drug helps patients lose never-before-seen amounts of weight, study shows\u201d by Karen Weintraub
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/06/04/diabetes-drug-could-game-changer-obesity-new-study-shows/7490446001/
• \u201cTirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity\u201d by Ania M. Jastreboff, M.D., Ph.D., Louis J. Aronne, M.D., Nadia N. Ahmad, M.D., M.P.H., Sean Wharton, M.D., Pharm.D., Lisa Connery, M.D., Breno Alves, M.D., Arihiro Kiyosue, M.D., Ph.D., Shuyu Zhang, M.S., Bing Liu, Ph.D., Mathijs C. Bunck, M.D., Ph.D., and Adam Stefanski, M.D., Ph.D.
  • https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206038?query=featured_home

Men entering the world of birth control.

• \u201cThis birth control pill for men could begin human trials later this year\u201d by Hannah Seo
  • https://www.popsci.com/health/new-male-birth-control-pill/
• \u201cA non-hormonal pill could soon expand men\u2019s birth control options\u201d by The American Chemical Society
  • https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2022/march/non-hormonal-pill-could-soon-expand-mens-birth-control-options.html
• \u201cMale Birth Control Pill Expected to Start Human Trials This Year\u201d by corryn Wetzel
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/male-birth-control-pill-expected-to-start-human-trials-this-year-180979814/
• \u201cContraceptive Use\u201d by the CDC
  • https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/contraceptive.htm

Seed bombing may not be what you think.

• \u201cDrones Are Setting Down Roots In Wildfire-Scarred Landscapes\u201d by\xa0 Ashley Franzen
  • https://www.theverge.com/23022323/drones-wildfire-first-nation-british-columbia
• \u201cAerial Planting: Bc First Nations Company Trialing Reforestation With Drones\u201d by Maria Church
  • https://www.woodbusiness.ca/aerial-planting-reforestation-drones/

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