💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
📉 Fewer journalists killed. 💉 New skin cancer vaccine works better than expected. 🔟 10-fold efficiency in CO2 capture. 🐦 Study shows minimal impact of wind turbines on bird populations.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Electric cars are terrible in cold weather! Or are they?
Up to 1,000 cars were stuck for at least 24 hours, during a snow storm. Immediately prejudices about electric cars started to spread.
💡 Warp News #216
📉 Fewer journalists killed. 💉 New skin cancer vaccine works better than expected. 🔟 10-fold efficiency in CO2 capture. 🐦 Study shows minimal impact of wind turbines on bird populations.
🙄 No, AI disinformation is not the biggest global threat - on the difficulty of getting a message across
AI-generated disinformation is the biggest global threat, says 1500 experts. That's nonsense.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
📉 Fewer died in wars in 2023. 📚 Sales of print books have increased 22% since 2004. 🏎️ Hospital cuts waiting lists with Formula 1 pitstop method. 👵 Surprise! Life expectancy in the U.S. is still going up.
🤳 Have screens made us stop experiencing?
Thousands filmed the countdown to the new year at a celebration in Paris. They have forgotten to experience, occupied with documenting, some say. That's nonsense.
💡 Warp News #215
📉 Fewer died in wars in 2023. 📚 Sales of print books have increased 22% since 2004. 🏎️ Hospital cuts waiting lists with Formula 1 pitstop method. 👵 Surprise! Life expectancy in the U.S. is still going up.
📚 The best books I read in 2023
Also, tips on how to read 100 books a year. Reading so many books requires discipline, but is easier than one might think.
📉 Fewer died in wars in 2023 compared to 2022
Nearly 100,000 fewer people died in wars and armed conflicts during 2023 compared to 2022