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Mathias Sundin 2 min read

๐Ÿ’ก Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news

๐Ÿ˜Š Americans satisfied with their lives. โ˜€๏ธ EU will hit renewable energy targets ahead of time. ๐Ÿค” Studies: Cynics aren't smarter (they are actually the opposite). ๐Ÿงฌ Human Y chromosome fully sequenced for the first time.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

๐Ÿ’ก Musings of the Angry Optimist: Don't look up, look forward

Is humanity at a crossroads? Two optimistic videos claim so. But such a crossroads does not exist.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

๐Ÿ’ก Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news

๐Ÿ’› Decline in suicides among young people. ๐Ÿญ EU sees decline in pollutant emissions. ๐Ÿข Record-breaking sea turtle nesting. ๐ŸŒŠ Less plastic in the oceans than presumed.

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

๐Ÿ’ก Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news

๐ŸŽฎ Violent video games don't make children aggressive. ๐Ÿ’ฐ Wealthier and more economically equal. ๐Ÿญ U.S. makes billion-dollar investment in carbon capture technology. ๐Ÿ˜ฒ A new force of nature? Yep, Fermilab scientists think so

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

๐Ÿ’ก Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news

โš ๏ธ Seismic shift: Earthquakes detectable hours in advance, instead of minutes. ๐Ÿ’‰ First tuberculosis vaccine in 100 years is in sight. โ›ˆ๏ธ Better weather forecasting with AI. ๐Ÿ”ฌ RNA-guided system in animals shows promise for human genome editing.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

๐Ÿ’ก 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.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

๐Ÿ’ก Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news

โšก Fusion power breakthrough is repeated. ๐ŸŒณ Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has decreased. ๐Ÿ’ฐ Fewer and fewer poor countries.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

๐Ÿ’ก Musings of The Angry Optimist: Doomsday talk and climate change

Does doomsday rhetoric about the climate work?

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

๐Ÿ’ก Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news

๐Ÿ”ฅ Fewer fires in electric cars. ๐Ÿ’‰ 18 million vaccine doses against malaria in Africa. ๐ŸŒง๏ธ Solar panels? No, RAIN panels. ๐Ÿฆพ OpenAI aims to solve AI alignment in four years.