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🌏 Corona makes it easy to be optimistic about coopetition
The recent vaccine race could be the first impressive example of how cooperative competition, or coopetition, on a larger scale will fold out in the 2020s, writes Anna Rennéus Guthrie.
⬆️ Optimism's Theory of Knowledge
The optimist's view differs from the pessimist's in a fundamental respect: the optimist sees what could be done with the half-full glass, what it can be used for, and who might need a little water right now, writes Nicklas Berild Lundblad.
💨 How Amazon delivers at super speed — and other benefits of E-commerce
Online spending skyrocketed around the globe in 2020 — and no other company got a larger piece of that pie than Amazon. Ulrika Gerth takes a deep dive into how they can deliver so fast, and what benefits e-commerce gives us in general.
💉 Matt Ridley: The unexpected history and miraculous success of vaccines
At a time when the miraculous success of vaccines has transformed the battle against the pandemic it is fitting to recall the general idea, and unexpected history, behind vaccination, writes Matt Ridley, bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and How Innovation Works.
📝 Warp News Impact Report - February 2021
We live-streamed NASA landing on Mars, launched our first (very popular!) quiz and started recruiting new volunteers. Our most read article was about Elon Musk.
💡 Warp News Manifesto
News media is constantly bombarding us with negative news and headlines. That has turned a majority of people into pessimists. And pessimists don't push the human race forward. For that we need optimists. To get more optimists we need to balance news media. That is the mission of Warp News.
💡 Infinite human knowledge is possible
Is there an upper limit to what we as humanity can know and learn? Are there problems we can't solve because our brains are too insignificant? Yes, at least according to the prevailing attitude of most people. But is that really true? Not if you ask Oxford professor David Deutsch.
🕊 This is how wind and solar energy make the world more peaceful
Our move to renewable energy will make the world more peaceful. As countries become self-sufficient in energy, many incentives for conflict will diminish.
📰 Do you think media is a dying business? Think again
Most people think that media is a lousy business, because they see lots of old media companies struggling. But the free global distribution of content is a huge opportunity for journalism and will create massive global media companies.