PS Newsletter
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
📉 Over 200 000 annual deaths averted through lower carbon emissions. 🩸 Promising results in cholesterol-lowering CRISPR treatment trial. 🌳 Allowing existing trees to grow could store a third of our carbon emissions. 🔋 Record low cost for electric vehicle batteries in 2023.
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🍛 Bangladesh added one more year of healthy life for just $1. 🔋 Northvolt's new battery needs less rare minerals. 🚀 Starship exploded, but made progress. 🍿 Jeffrey Katzenberg: AI could reduce animation movie costs by 90%.
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🌳 Ecuador's forests are making a comeback. 🏭 First commercial carbon capture plant in the U.S. inaugurated. 🌊 Desalinates 49,000 liters of water daily, powered by ocean waves. 📉 China's CO2 emissions set to decline in 2024.
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👵 Dementia has started to decline. ☂️ An astronaut proposes a space parasol. 🦋 England's rivers increase in invertebrate diversity. 🧬 AlphaFold will speed up drug discovery.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: If we'd regulated the internet, as we're regulating AI
President Biden's AI regulation is vague and at the same time EXTREMELY specific. If we had regulated the internet in the same way, it would have seriously hampered our development. Also: We reveal which movie Biden watched that influenced his determination to regulate AI.
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🧏 Curing deafness in children with gene therapy - trail begins. 💉 13% decline in child deaths thanks to malaria vaccine. 🚁 Electric air taxis to showcase at the Olympics. 💰 Americans are getting wealthier, especially the poor.
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🌱 Rhubarbs key to recycling electric car batteries ♿ Record high employment and education levels among disabled Americans. 📲 Oxford researchers: Overblown fears about misinformation from AI.
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🧠 Real-time brain tumor diagnosis during surgery. 🚰 MIT: Desalination freshwater cheaper than tap water. 🌌 Scientists make key discovery about antimatter. 🐔 CRISPR-engineered chickens resistant to flu.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Dumb money
How 'dumb money' became 'smart money', what you should do to knock down a wall, and what to do if you're inside that wall.