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💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
💛 Decline in suicides among young people. 🏭 EU sees decline in pollutant emissions. 🐢 Record-breaking sea turtle nesting. 🌊 Less plastic in the oceans than presumed.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🎮 Violent video games don't make children aggressive. 💰 Wealthier and more economically equal. 🏭 U.S. makes billion-dollar investment in carbon capture technology. 😲 A new force of nature? Yep, Fermilab scientists think so
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
⚠️ Seismic shift: Earthquakes detectable hours in advance, instead of minutes. 💉 First tuberculosis vaccine in 100 years is in sight. ⛈️ Better weather forecasting with AI. 🔬 RNA-guided system in animals shows promise for human genome editing.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: A motorcycle for the mind
Steve Jobs called the computer a bicycle for the mind. Then AI is a motorcycle.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
⚡ Fusion power breakthrough is repeated. 🌳 Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has decreased. 💰 Fewer and fewer poor countries.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: Doomsday talk and climate change
Does doomsday rhetoric about the climate work?
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🔥 Fewer fires in electric cars. 💉 18 million vaccine doses against malaria in Africa. 🌧️ Solar panels? No, RAIN panels. 🦾 OpenAI aims to solve AI alignment in four years.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: How should one think about Elon Musk?
I discovered Elon Musk ten years ago and became obsessed. This is how my thoughts about him have changed since then.
🚢 How a box and a truck driver made the world smaller and the global economy bigger
Loading a medium-sized ship with loose cargo cost $5.86 per ton in 1956. If you instead used containers for the cargo, the cost dropped to 16 cents. This breakthrough dramatically changed the world in the second half of the 20th century.