📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
💡 10 most interesting new technologies - according to the World Economic Forum
Everything from microneedles that can replace syringes to electric aircraft fits into the list of the most important technologies that emerged during the year.
🏫 Now more children than ever go to school
90 percent of all school-age children are now enrolled in a school somewhere on earth. In 1970, it was 72 percent.
👕 Looop - an in-store recycling machine
H&M fights climate change with their new in-store recycling machine called Looop.
🐠 Scientists discover new coral reef
Australian scientists discover a coral reef close to the Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage Area. It’s the first new coral reef discovered in 120 years.
🧒🏾 Never before have so few children died on earth
Child mortality has dropped dramatically in the world in 30 years. In 1990, 9.3 percent of all children died before the age of five. In 2019, it was 3.8 percent.
🙄 Are optimists naive? No, but the pessimists are
Contrary to popular belief, it is the pessimists that are naive, not the optimists. Despite tremendous progress for humanity, they think that this progress will suddenly end, without any reason. That is irrational and foolish.
🦋 “Extinct” butterfly returns to England
Scientists have successfully reintroduced the butterfly "Large Blue" in England, making this insect conservation program one of the biggest and most successful in the world.
🔥 The size of the world's fires has decreased by 25 percent
Between 2003 and 2019, the size of the world's fires decreased by 25 percent, according to NASA.
⛓️ First political candidate to put pledges on the blockchain
Faruk Okcetin is a candidate for County Commissioner in Wake County, Raleigh, North Carolina. He is now the first candidate ever to put his campaign pledges on the blockchain, so the voters easily can keep him accountable.