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ligand··on DevDegree: Work at Shopify and get a free CS degree in parallel
> On top of this, Shopify pays students' tuition, a competitive salary, and vacation, for a total financial support of more than $160,000.

From https://devdegree.ca/pages/student-experience. It appears that you dont get paid 40k. 40k per year is the total they will expend on you, with tuition being part of that.

ligand··on People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study
I really wish articles written about studies like this, where all they found was a association between stuff, and not a causal relationship, would explicitly say so. Perhaps through a little box near the end of the article stating, in simple terms, "the authors found that X and Y are associated. This does not necessarily mean that doing X will cause Y"

I know the people who read the actual study in journal, entitled "Optimism is associated with ...", will notice the word "associated" and know what to make of the results. But Im pretty sure a good number of people who read pop-science articles like this dont know that "correlation doesnt imply causation". They will come to the wrong conclusion, and we cant blame them! Ive found this to be true in friends and family.

ligand··on Solar foods
This is there whitepaper:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hsbi4amp0am0l5y/Solar_Foods_Flyer_...

The website prompts you to sign up to the mailing list to get a copy. Its very sparse on details unfortunately.

ligand··on Pando, the Most Massive Organism on Earth, Is Shrinking
Perhaps because as the article states, Pando is considered a keystone species, because of that, if Pando ceases to exist, it will take species dependent on it with it.

While as you say other organisms will fluorish, we must consider the change in biodiversity and not just abundance

ligand··on Chinese city to launch man-made moon to light up skies
Geostationary orbit also requires the sattelite to take on an equatorial orbit. I doubt a geostationary orbit will be used in this case.