π‘ Tips from Warp News: Food out of thin air & maps of progress
Ken Follett's new book, interactive maps that show the world's progress, food out of thin air, why people are so pessimistic about the future - and finally a way to know if the ice cream at McDonald's is broken.
I usually don't give you tips on fiction books, especially if they aren't about the future.
So why am I recommending you to read Ken Follett'sThe Evening and the Morning?
Well, first it is an excellent book. Just wonderful. It is the fourth book in Folletts Kingsbridge suite that started with The Pillars of the Earth. But Evening is a prequel; it takes place before Pillars, about a thousand years ago.
That is the second reason. Follett shows how brutal life was then and what huge progress we've made since.
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π° Article
The Guardian has made a handful of interactive maps that shows the world's progress.
As Albert Einstein said, βYou canβt use old maps to explore a new world.β
A majority of people in the richest countries are pessimistic about the future. One reason is that they know less about humanity's progress than chimpanzees.
π³ Whales have a phonetic alphabet. π Space probe returns with samples from the far side of the moon - for the first time. π Solar telescope tracks the source of the solar wind for the first time.
π³ Deforestation in the Amazon reaches lowest level since 2018. π³οΈ Human rights have improved in all world regions. π New space telescope could potentially see city lights on exoplanets.