💵 OP-ED: Space Bonds can democratize the financing of humanity's journey to Mars
Elon Musk doesn't have enough money to take humanity to Mars. For that, we need "space bonds," according to Warp News ambassador Oskar Söderström.
🕰️ Counting the Minutes and Seconds to a Sci-Fi Future
We should create a Genesis Clock, to counter the Doomsday Clock, and count the minutes and seconds we have until dawn, writes The Conservative Futurist, James Pethokoukis.
🌅 Climate optimism: Shake the bottle! Pop the cork!
A message from the founder of We Don't Have Time on how we make the positive climate future come sooner.
🌾 Stop opposing healthy food for poor children, Greenpeace
Greenpeace is running an unscientific campaign against the genetically modified golden rice. Unfortunately, they are successful, making vitamin A deficiency in many children worse.
😰 The Pattern of Technology Panic
Technology panics also follow Gartner's hype curve, and in the worst case, they can initiate ill-considered bans and restrictions, writes Waldemar Ingdahl.
🥋 Sweden's oldest Karate Kid: Grit & sisu
At the age of 69, Per Holmlöv started training in karate. It was just one of the many challenges he had taken on during his life. At the age of 80, he started painting. In this article, he writes about optimism and what it takes to have drive and perseverance.
🗞️ I skipped the news - and lived to tell about it
After a thirty-day news fast, Tomas Söderlund found his place in a lower, calmer, and more pleasant pace of information with greater positive energy - without feeling less informed. With a little distance from everything that happens, the big features stood out better.
🔧 Nobel Prize winner Gustaf Dalén – the eternal optimist
Gustaf Dalén was the Nobel laureate who experimented and developed a new cooker in his own kitchen. The new cooker revolutionized household work. He was not only a genius engineer, he was also an optimist!