Today is #WorldMalariaDay, a time to focus on a disease that continues to be one of the leading causes of child mortality globally. Three facts on the progress we've made against malaria and how we can continue this vital work. 🧵

Mark Nelson Emirates Nuclear Thanks for sharing Mark Nelson! Paper here: oxfordenergy.org/wpcms/wp-conte… Podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/2eEJTi…

This week, we cover the recent blackout on the Iberian peninsula. Guillem Sanchis Ramirez, a Spanish nuclear engineer & advocate, walks us through the event that plunged over 50 million people into powerlessness and the power grid on which it happened. We cover Spain’s precarious

Seems like a good time for an update on a graph from my 2015 post on AI.

Meanwhile in Europe: the Impossible Burger is still 100% illegal. Thank you, anti-GMO people, for protecting us from sustainable, humane and delicious plant-based burgers. 🙃

What do governments spend money on? In the chart, we see spending in different categories, such as defense, health, and education, as a share of total government spending. This is shown for a selection of OECD countries. For some categories, such as public services, the share

"Because our hopes and efforts for building a better future are inextricably linked to our understanding of the past, it is important to study and communicate the global development up to now. Studying our world in data and understanding how we overcame challenges that seemed

Nuclear is the best source of energy across nearly all the factors that matter. It's the safest, cleanest, densest, most sustainable, geopolitically stable, predictable, dispatchable, and can be cheap. 1. SAFEST It kills 1000x less than coal

Most of the increase in natural disasters in the late 20th century is due to improved reporting— Tracking the occurrence of natural disasters can save lives by helping countries prepare for future ones. In our work on natural disasters, we visualize data from EM-DAT, the most

You've got to watch this hilarious video right to the end for the real bombshell!

. Emad came back on the show to chat about: --how we can't compete against AI agents --his solution for a POSITIVE AI world --Why UBI won't work but UBAI might.. --we need to be focused on incentivizing the right outcomes -- Nations need sovereign AI stacks or

✍️ New article: Death rates from cardiovascular disease have fallen dramatically — what were the breakthroughs behind this? For much of history, heart disease was a mystery. Middle-aged adults often collapsed without warning, and doctors usually blamed “dropsy”, “apoplexy”, or

Homophobic attitudes have fallen in Western Europe and the United States— Forty years ago, public views about homosexuality were extremely negative in many rich countries. As the chart shows, back in 1984, one in three Dutch people believed homosexuality was “never or rarely

10,000 people across the globe have now taken the 🔸10% Pledge 🚀 > $300M already donated > $1B lifetime committed 10,000 people from 116 countries 🌐 This is a movement of action and optimism, funding work to solve the world’s most pressing problems 🔥 givingwhatwecan.org/pledge

In this exchange with Maher, I explain how Trump created a new norm—making truth optional. Maher: Don't you think it has something to do also with the confidence with which you back up your bullshit? I mean, we're going to talk about the economy on the panel. I think he has for

Brilliant. Bill Maher lays out the terms for a deal to tone down the culture war and keep the country. What each side must do to say no to its crazies. If you are in the middle 80% of the country, please watch: youtube.com/watch?v=2ZkjMU…

JUST ANNOUNCED! WNXP and the Frist Art Museum present An Evening with José González Wednesday, Nov. 12. Tickets are available exclusively for WNXP Insider members and Frist Art Museum members. Tickets go on sale this Friday, Oct. 3 at 10am CT. prekindle.com/event/82784-wn…

France opened a flurry of nuclear power plants in the 1980s and 1990s, giving it low-carbon electricity ever since— At the turn of the millennium, France had one of the lowest-carbon electricity grids in Europe (and the world). While countries like the UK and Germany emitted

I’ve done dozens of debates, but this passage from Steven Pinker new book, When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows…, is why I much prefer “in conversation” as superior at finding truth, or at least common ground: "At the most refined levels of intellectual colloquy, in debating

Remember, kids: The 'Dark Triad' of personality traits (Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism) is hugely over-represented among people who manage to make themselves famous. And it explains why so many of them, sooner or later, adopt toxic, delusional beliefs that make them