💡 Warp News #325
📚 More nine-year-olds are reading books daily. 🚰 Machine pulls water from the air. 💊 GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic, linked to lower risk of cancer progression.
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🌐 Present at the Re-creation
One sentence in the final chapter stayed with me.
It was about a completely different time, but it was highly relevant to our time as well.
It was written by Dean Acheson in his autobiography Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department.
He worked at the U.S. State Department under President Roosevelt and later served as President Truman’s secretary of state.
Acheson would become one of the chief architects of the new world order. The UN, the IMF, the World Bank, NATO and much else took shape during his time.
When he looked back in the book, he wrote:
“Everyone who served in those years had the opportunity to give more than a sample of their best.”
They were ordinary people working in an extraordinary time, which both required them to perform at their full capacity and gave them the opportunity to do so.
Now we see how the world order that was built then is being torn down.
At such a time, it is easy to lose hope.
But this is our extraordinary time.
That is what I write about in this week’s Premium Supporter article, open to everyone: 🌐 Present at the Re-creation
Mathias Sundin
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💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
💊 GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic, linked to lower risk of cancer progression
Among women with breast cancer, more than 95 percent of GLP-1 users were alive after five years, compared to 89.5 percent of non-users. Women who had taken a GLP-1 drug had about 25 percent lower risk of receiving a breast cancer diagnosis.
🛰️ AI and satellite imagery help journalists map illegal mines in the Amazon
Machine learning analyzes satellite images covering more than 123 million acres of rainforest and identifies mining pits and airstrips. Venezuelan journalist Joseph Poliszuk has identified 3,718 gold mining sites. Some of the mines were located within protected indigenous lands.
🚰 Machine pulls water from the air - can produce 4,000 liters per day
Startup Atoco is preparing production of a machine that extracts water directly from the air using nanocrystalline materials. The container-sized prototype can produce up to 1,057 gallons of water per day and be installed at data centers, hospitals, and other critical infrastructure.
🦟 Malaria vaccine has reduced child mortality by 13% in three African countries
A study confirms that the RTS,S vaccine has reduced overall child mortality by 13 percent in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. The effect was achieved even though only 71 percent of children received three doses and 40 percent received the fourth dose.
📚 More nine-year-olds are reading books daily
39 percent of 9-year-olds read books or newspapers daily, the highest share since the measurements began in 2012. Daily reading is increasing among children aged 9 to 11 compared with the previous measurement in 2022.
🌡️ Research committee that provides input to the IPCC drops the worst climate scenarios
The research committee ScenarioMIP, which develops the climate scenarios that form the basis for the IPCC's reports, has officially classified the previous worst-case scenarios RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5 and SSP3-7.0 as implausible.
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