Thanks to Banting and Best, diabetes is no longer a death sentence.

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Environmentalists often make a conceptual error: they equate anthropogenic environmental change with degradation.

But so far, humanity's alterations to the natural environment have massively enhanced our well-being.
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'On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track.'
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Relative to income, coffee is 81% cheaper than it was in 1980.

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For every year that golden-rice cultivation is delayed, thousands in Asia will die, says Matin Qaim, a researcher from the University of Bonn economist.com/asia/2024/05/0…

In 1999, the Jiji earthquake killed over 2,400 people in Taiwan.

On April 3rd, thanks to decades of preparation, an earthquake of similar magnitude killed less than 20.
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Contrary to Malthusian predictions, population growth does not lead to resource scarcity.

Resource abundance is actually increasing faster than the population is growing. #SimonAbundanceIndex

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When Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh in 1984, it sold for $2,495, or 498 hours of unskilled labor.

Today, a new iMac costs just 78.7 hours.
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'The latest Cento variant is a hybrid drone about the size of a small single-seater aircraft, and can carry 100 lbs. of cargo up to 600 miles.

It's designed for fully autonomous operation, down to loading and unloading packages.'
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When surveyed, only 1% of people correctly answered that world poverty decreased by 50% over the last two decades.
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Will Gen Z be the 9th generation to be wealthier than their parents?

Say you're planning a novel—a synthesis and culmination of your entire life's experience. The world at large is not ready for it but 50,000 Americans are. Result, success.

If the population were 10% of what it is: sales 5,000. Result, failure.

And suppression of minority ideas.

'If other [blood types] could be transformed to O, the supply of universal donors could be instantly doubled.

Now researchers reckon they might have found a way to do it, thanks to a new mix of enzymes found inside gut bacteria.'
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Human Progress We are entering the age of digital medicine

Nowhere near the Apollo Program, but Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today’s dollars.

Some criticize the “progress narrative” as an excuse for inaction.

However, that conclusion reveals a misunderstanding of the history of progress.

From the abolition of slavery to the Green Revolution, progress has often come from transformative change.
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