📈 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.
🐠 A community of women in Kenya has restored a dying coral reef
A group of women on Wasini Island in Kenya, have banded together to restore the coral reef along their coastline. Their successful efforts have played a key role in restoring large swaths of coral reefs, on which 80% of their community rely upon for an income.
📭 Drones delivering prescription medicine to residential doorsteps for the first time
Last month UPS announced that it was the first to receive approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its full drone airline. It allowed them to expand upon their small drone delivery pilot programs into a nation wide network.
🔬 After more than two decades of research, the world finally has an approved Ebola vaccine
Ebola vaccine approved in Europe in landmark moment in fight against a deadly disease.
🌍 Africa is the world’s fastest-growing continent for software developers
As tech ecosystems and hubs continue to sprout across Africa, an accompanying effect has been an a big increase in local software engineering talent. So big in fact, that Microsoft is investing over $100 million [https://qz.com/africa/1618874/microsoft-opens-africa-development-centre-in-kenya-and-nigeria/] to
Microsoft Japan tested a four-day work week and productivity jumped by 40%
Microsoft [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us] recently tested a 4 day work week over a one month period for its 2,300 person workforce in Japan. As technology allows us to be far more productive in the workplace, the struggles of work-life balance of always being accessible has
Vaccine against 1.5 million killer tuberculosis is a step closer
💉 Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people around the world each year. This vaccine could revolutionize treatment and provide long-term protection. It has already cleared a critical phase of clinical trials and been tested on more than 3,500 adults in TB endemic regions of South Africa, Kenya and Zambia,
Google's quantum computer chrushes supercomputer in calculation
Google says that its 54-qubit Sycamore processor was able to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years. That would mean the calculation, which involved generated random numbers, is essentially impossible on a traditional, non-quantum computer. William
🌍 Kickstarting The Industrial Revolution in Africa
Everywhere it has been implemented throughout the globe, industrialization has lifted people out of extreme poverty, extended life expectancies, raised literacy rates, and improved living conditions. Finally, it is Africa’s turn. Proposed [http://www.tralac.org/resources/by-region/cfta.html] by Rwandan President Paul Kagame in March 2018,
This open-source home design might revolutionize the way we build
Keeping the fifth largest city in America running in a hot and arid desert climate is a difficult task, but the city of Phoenix, Arizona has pledged to do so and go carbon neutral and zero-waste. To achieve this, the city held a sustainable home design competition to come