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Thu. 10/07 - It's Like Venmo, But For the Post Office

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The WHO has officially approved the first-ever malaria vaccine. The United States Postal Service is trying out being a bank. And the story of a white-naped crane named Walnut who fell in love with a human named Crowe. Sponsor: Novo, BankNovo.com/kottke Links: World Health Organization Approves First Malaria Vaccine (NY Mag) Malaria vaccine: When will it be available? (BBC) World's first malaria vaccine gets WHO recommendation (NPR) WHO recommends groundbreaking malaria vaccine for children at risk (WHO) The USPS is testing out becoming a bank, and it's about damn time. (Boing Boing) USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program (Prospect) The crane who fell in love with a human (Washington Post, 2018) Crowe and Crane "It's complicated." (Amanda Deibert, Twitter) The 9,090-Piece Titanic Is Now the Largest Lego Model Ever Released (Gizmodo) Accurate Titanic Model (bikekill, TikTok) Wandavision Agatha Harkness Marvel Spinoff at Disney+ (iO9) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Thursday, October 7th, 2021.

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I'm Jackson Bird.

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Today, the WHO has officially approved the first ever malaria vaccine.

0:49.0

The United States Postal Service is trying out being a bank,

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and the story of a white-naped crane named

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Walnut who fell in love with a human named Crow. Here are some of the cool things from the

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news today. Kicking off with some very good news, the World Health Organization has approved the first ever malaria vaccine.

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The mosquito-borne virus kills roughly half a million people worldwide every year, more than half of whom are children,

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and killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century. So having a vaccine is a huge step towards saving countless lives.

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Quoting New York Magazine's intelligentser, the muskirics shot, which has been in the works for over

1:34.0

30 years, creates antibodies to combat plasmodium falciparum, the most dangerous of the five

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malaria pathogens, and the most commonly found strain in sub-Saharan Africa. It's also the first

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ever vaccine approved for a parasitic disease. Most vaccines protect people against viruses,

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