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In case you missed it, last week alone: - Denmark repealed its 1985 ban on nuclear electricity 🇩🇰 - Belgium scrapped its nuclear phaseout 🇧🇪 - Germany said they will no longer oppose nuclear in EU energy policy 🇩🇪 - Historically anti-nuclear state of Massachusetts is

In case you missed it, last week alone:

- Denmark repealed its 1985 ban on nuclear electricity 🇩🇰 

- Belgium scrapped its nuclear phaseout 🇧🇪 

- Germany said they will no longer oppose nuclear in EU energy policy 🇩🇪 

- Historically anti-nuclear state of Massachusetts is
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Very big impact: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week after school progam in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" at very low costs

Very big impact: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week after school progam in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" at very low costs
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"The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls." – Joseph Schumpeter Today, that process is rapidly unfolding in the diamond industry. newsletter.humanprogress.org/p/from-silk-st…

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Child mortality has fallen so dramatically that the number of annual child deaths is down by millions compared to a decade ago even as the world's population has grown. humanprogress.org/capitalism-the…

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"In the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s, it was common for famines to kill over 10 million people per decade... that number has dropped sharply, to about one to two million per decade." humanprogress.org/famines-kill-f…

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The innovations that built the modern world were not evenly or randomly dispersed throughout the globe. Instead, they tended to emerge from cities experiencing a particular set of conditions. humanprogress.org/lessons-from-a…

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Toys are dramatically more affordable today than in the past, and this is in large part thanks to international trade. Don't Put a Tariff on Barbie! My latest blog for Cato Institute cato.org/blog/dont-put-…

Toys are dramatically more affordable today than in the past, and this is in large part thanks to international trade. Don't Put a Tariff on Barbie!

My latest blog for <a href="/CatoInstitute/">Cato Institute</a> 

cato.org/blog/dont-put-…
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Innovators are transforming diamonds from symbols of privilege into everyday commodities. humanprogress.org/from-silk-stoc…

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"Uganda has made notable progress in poverty alleviation, with the national poverty rate declining to 16.1 percent... This marks a significant improvement from the 20.3 percent recorded in the 2019/20 survey." humanprogress.org/ugandas-povert…

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Habitat loss is the biggest threat to biodiversity. By consistently improving crop yields, modern farming methods spare land and protect wildlife. From Zion Lights: humanprogress.org/organic-farmin…

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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. humanprogress.org/do-human-progr…

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"Scientists have mapped the entire genome of a northern white rhino... a crucial step toward bringing the critically endangered species back from the edge using advanced reproductive technologies." humanprogress.org/genome-of-nort…

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Many of the most ardent Malthusians study animals, nearly all of which face real natural limits on their populations. Their mistake is thinking we can apply those same dynamics to human civilization. humanprogress.org/sorry-jane-chi…