💡 Warp News #302
📈 Young people spend more time in nature. 🦾 AI scientist performs six months of work in one day. 👮 London has fewer murders than in over 20 years.
🕵️ Stupid overconfidence in "The Traitors" raises a crucial question about our democracy
Why do so many people follow the stupidly overconfident types in The Traitors? And what can we learn from it to defend our democracy?
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🐝 Solar farms refuges for bumblebees. 🚰 Israel tops up Sea of Galilee with desalinated seawater. 🧬 Scientists have for the first time sequenced RNA from 40,000-year-old mammoth.
💉 New vaccine can stop meningitis in Africa
A five-in-one vaccine has begun to be used in several African countries to protect against bacterial meningitis. The vaccine costs only three dollars per dose and protects against four types of bacteria that cause almost all meningitis epidemics in the region.
💡 Warp News #301
🐝 Solar farms refuges for bumblebees. 🚰 Israel tops up Sea of Galilee with desalinated seawater. 🧬 Scientists have for the first time sequenced RNA from 40,000-year-old mammoth.
🥃 The glass is neither half full nor half empty
Fact-based optimists don't care whether the glass is half full or half empty. They see the world in a different way.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🐘 Elephant poaching decreased by 50 percent after China's ivory ban. 🦾 New AI-designed enzyme breaks down plastic foam into recyclable building blocks. 📉 China's carbon dioxide emissions lower than 18 months ago.
💡 Warp News #300
🐘 Elephant poaching decreased by 50 percent after China's ivory ban. 🦾 New AI-designed enzyme breaks down plastic foam into recyclable building blocks. 📉 China's carbon dioxide emissions lower than 18 months ago.
⏰ Now it’s happening – but no one notices
Last week, two things happened that mostly showed up as brief news items. Having followed both of these developments for years, I’m fascinated by how little attention they get. Each of them will, on its own, have a massive impact on our world.