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⚡ Fusion power breakthrough is repeated. 🌳 Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has decreased. 💰 Fewer and fewer poor countries.
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❗ Two per week it is
Last week, I asked what you thought about the number of premium articles, as some had mentioned that two are too many. However, that's not what the majority thinks, it turned out.
71 percent want the same number as now, 21 percent want fewer, and 8 percent want more.
I'm grateful to those of you who take the time to respond to these kinds of surveys. It's very valuable information. Thank you!
In other words, we'll continue with two premium articles per week.
In the future, I would like to be able to offer you more personal settings. Some might want a newsletter every day, another once a week, a third once a month, and so on. But for that, we need to take a step and self-host our site on Ghost (where we are now) and build such a solution. We don't have the resources for that today, but we aim to get there as quickly as possible.
Last week I wrote about rain panels. The results claimed by the researchers have been questioned, and are also suspected because it was published in a Chinese scientific journal by Chinese researchers. Sometimes quite spectacular results slip through in such cases.
However, I have not yet confirmed whether the results are accurate or not, so for the time being, the article is still there, but with a small warning inserted at the beginning of the text.
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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Fact-based optimistic news of the week
⚡ Fusion power breakthrough is repeated (now even more energy out than in)
US scientists achieve net energy gain in fusion reaction for the second time. The latest experiment produced more energy than the first one conducted last year.
🌳 Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has decreased by a third
Deforestation in the Amazon decreased by 34 percent during the first half of the year compared to 2022. In July, the region entered a dry season with an increased risk for deforestation. Was the positive trend interrupted then?
💰 New data: Fewer and fewer poor countries (including Gaza and the West Bank)
A drastic decline in low-income countries since the 1980s. 80 percent of nations saw a gross national income per person improvement in 2022. Gaza and the West Bank move up to the upper-middle income group.
🌡️ New IPCC chairman: Talk of doomsday doesn't help in climate efforts
"If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyzes people", says the new chairman of the UN:s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
💰 O'Shaughnessy Ventures launches grants program
Five people have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the O’Shaughnessy Grants. Each will receive a $10,000 grant.
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