Glacier Collapse, Teen Safeguards, and Cancer Medicine
Sam and Leah explain how an ice-and-rock collapse caused the deadly flood near Nepal’s border with Tibet, what Meta’s proposed teen-safety agreement would change on Instagram and Facebook, and how a new medicine targets a growth switch in pancreatic cancer cells.
Show notes
In this episode
- 0:01 Opening and preview
- 0:32 What caused the Nepal–Tibet flood
- 4:34 Meta agrees to new teen safeguards
- 6:22 A new targeted pancreatic-cancer medicine
- 8:14 Recap and discussion question
Sources and context
- What caused the Nepal–Tibet flood: Reuters and BBC and Nepal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority
- Meta agrees to new teen safeguards: Meta and Colorado Attorney General and Associated Press
- A new targeted pancreatic-cancer medicine: U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Food and Drug Administration and New England Journal of Medicine
