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Today, you’ll learn about how COVID-19 may have revamped cities for the better, astounding new technology that could one day regrow human limbs and how an agricultural fertilizer is going from feeding the world to potentially powering the world.

Covid’s Bright Side 

• The Pandemic Might Have Redesigned Cities Forever by Adam Rogers
  • https://www.wired.com/story/the-pandemic-might-have-redesigned-cities-forever/
• Pandemic-led decline of US cities may be reversing by Howard Schneider
  • https://www.reuters.com/world/the-great-reboot/pandemic-led-decline-us-cities-may-be-reversing-2021-05-04/
• Car-Free Transportation Gets Boost from U.S. Grant Program by Laura Bliss
  • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-29/bike-pedestrian-infrastructure-favored-in-raise-grants
• Pandemic-era Street Spaces: Parklets, Patios, and the Future of the Public Realm by John Bela
  • https://dirt.asla.org/2021/09/09/pandemic-era-street-spaces-parklets-patios-and-the-future-of-the-public-realm/
• The Status of Outdoor Dining Across the Country by Amy McCarthy
  • https://www.eater.com/22833407/pandemic-outdoor-dining-america-impact-neighborhoods

Frogs Out On a Limb

• A new device helps frogs regrow working legs after an amputation by Carolyn Wilke
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/frog-leg-regeneration-new-device-regrow-amputation
• Frogs regrow amputated legs in breakthrough experiment by Patrick Pester
  • https://www.livescience.com/frogs-regrow-amputated-legs-in-lab
• Could Humans Ever Regenerate a Limb? by Jesse Emspak
  • https://www.livescience.com/59194-could-humans-ever-regenerate-limbs.html
• How do we use frogs in research? by The Francis Crick Institute
  • https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/2019-12-16_how-do-we-use-frogs-in-research
• Scientists regrow frog’s lost leg by Tufts University
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/940952

Fertilizing Fuel

• Can ‘Green’ Ammonia Be a Climate Fix? by Nicola Jones
  • https://www.wired.com/story/can-green-ammonia-be-a-climate-fix/
• Green ammonia could produce climate-friendly ways to store energy and fertilize farms by Stephen Ornes
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2119584118
• Ammonia: zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store by The Royal Society
  • https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/low-carbon-energy-programme/green-ammonia
• Satellite Data Detects Hundreds of New Sources of Ammonia Pollution by Jason Daley

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