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🏙️ Wooden skyscrapers - the new city sky line
The latest assembling techniques for wood panels make it possible to raise the bar of wooden skyscrapers, creating organic giants with reduced environmental impact.
📚 E-book: Naive Pessimists
Meet the naysayers who thrive on doom, hog the spotlight - and get almost everything wrong.
☀️ Are we about to cure cancer?
Less than a hundred years ago, cancer could not be treated. Many died without even understanding the seriousness of their diagnosis. A lot has happened since then. Are we even on the verge of curing cancer, asks Magnus Aschan.
🌊 A tsunami of climate solutions is on its way
At times it feels like very little progress is made to reduce climate change. Things have to be done faster. However, we will probably be surprised in 2035 how incredibly far we have come in reducing emissions. This is because a tsunami of climate solutions is on its way.
🗳️ Behind dark headlines for democracy there is also progress
Is democracy in crisis? 2021 was a bad year and 2022 has started negatively. But if you look over time - behind some headlines - more countries are free today. Writes political scientist Max Rånge who has created democracy index.
🤔 Watch out for the undercover pessimist - also known as the realist
"I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist, I am a realist." Does this sound familiar? Do not let yourself be fooled. So-called realists are pessimists in sheep's clothing.
💡 The secret to happiness
What makes us happy? Kelly Odell takes you on a journey from the old Greeks to the body's self-produced cannabis to find out.
🧬 The Elon Code - how to understand Musk
Much has been said and written about how Elon Musk thinks and operates, but despite that, a key part has been neglected. There are two parts to The Elon Code, but only one part has gotten most of the attention. Here we dive into the second part.
💡 David Deutsch: Optimism, Pessimism and Cynicism
With so much progress in the world, how can pessimism still be widespread? It is because of cynicism, denying that “so-called-progress” is progress, argues David Deutsch, professor at Oxford University and one of the world's leading intellectuals on optimism.