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This conceptual chemotherapy chair was designed with feedback from patients, nurses, and doctors. Patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment get to know, and perhaps loathe, their chemotherapy chairs. The treatments typically consist of an intravenous infusion of drugs that attack fast-growing, often cancerous cells, and the patients receiving these drugs spend anywhere from a few minutes to several hours sitting in a hospital-grade chair.

New research shows that a quarter of web pages from the last decade are no longer accessible. There’s an adage that the internet is forever, but new research finds that’s not exactly true.

Meeting your employees in the middle might make the difference between their full engagement or having one foot out the door.  At the end of a workshop about cultural preferences in the workplace, a team leader in a global pharmaceutical company told me: “I operate with an open-door policy,” and confessed that he sought to keep an open, democratic approach for everyone on his team.

In a new book, Tom Steyer argues that we can all be climate people and make a real difference in the climate crisis. How can we shift the incentives so that even the most self-interested people make choices that help stabilize our planet and prevent human catastrophe? What does climate capitalism look like?

Cape Town, which beat a water crisis in 2018, holds lessons for cities grappling with an El Niño-fueled drought. This article originally appeared in Grist, a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Sign up for its newsletter here.