How many slaves does it take to build a solar panel?

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Products that are fundamental to nearly all global “green pledges” — including electric vehicle batteries, solar panels, wind turbines and industrial-grade storage batteries — require minerals that are produced with significant human rights violations.

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New Brain Maps Can Predict Behaviors

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Rapid advances in large-scale connectomics are beginning to spotlight the importance of individual variations in the neural circuitry of the brain. They also highlight the limitations of “wiring diagrams” alone.

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