📚 Fact-based optimistic summer reading
There will be more time for reading this summer, now that there are no long holidays abroad. Here are a bunch of tips for filling your reading list with fact-based optimistic books.
🐝 An app with AI should save bee communities from dying
To save the bee communities from dying, a Swedish beekeeper has developed an app that, with the help of AI, analyzes how the bee community is feeling and what you can do to make it live and thrive.
🌞 Insanely low solar prices
Even the most optimistic forecasters have been wrong, the price of solar energy has dropped even faster. Soon it is cheaper to build new solar energy than to retain existing coal and gas.
💡 Warp Manifesto for the 2020s
The Warp Institute Foundation wants to help make people more optimistic about the future. It makes them more involved in creating that future, so we can bend the curve for humanity's development and make the future come faster.
📈 To build we need optimism
Netscape's founder, and the creator of the first web browser, Marc Andreessen wants us to build more. For that, we need more optimism. Optimists have more ideas, create more out of the ideas and do not give up as easily.
👨🚀 Tom Cruise is filming at the International Space Station
Tom Cruise and Elon Musk make a joint venture with NASA and record the first film in space.
🔭 Wright's Law is the best way to predict the future
Understanding the future is the most valuable knowledge there is. The prime example is Moore's Law. But there is another law with even higher accuracy that can teach us a lot about the future, not at least about electric cars.
🐉 Mother of Dragons acted like all dictators
Many were surprised when Daenerys chose to destroy King's Landing with her dragon. But it was the most realistic moment in the entire series (apart from the use of a dragon ...) Authoritarian power always leads to the slaughter of innocents.
🌬️ Ozone hole closing help southern jet stream return to normal
The ozone hole is the smallest on record since its discovery, which helps the jet stream to return to normal.