Feeling down? Who wouldn’t be?
I’ve mentioned this before but I can’t stress enough how great this newsletter from HumanProgress.org is. “Stress” is a dual-purpose operative word here.
Every Friday (a great day to get it because it’s when I really need it after reading way too much stupidity on Twitter and the corporate “news” media all week), I get a free list of GOOD NEWS stories. They’re mostly in the realm of science (actual science, not Liberal Party-style or Democratic Party-style Science™), which despite my being a conservative who is supposed to be ragingly and blindingly and moronically “anti-science,” and believing only in JESUS or something (I’m not really sure what the Liberal-left argument is here but it’s beyond stupid), is actually among my favorite things in my life.
Here is this week’s list. I noted to myself two of them near the bottom concerning nuclear plants being built (yay!) — in India, of all places (and nowhere do they need them more), and in Belgium, which until five minutes ago swore off of them, as Germany and others did until they realized the error of their ways. But they’re all good.
News:
- Scientists Finish Decoding Entire Human Genome
- Waymo to Send Driverless Cars Through San Francisco
- Artificial Pancreas to Revolutionize Diabetes Care in England
- This Robot Promises to Make the Backpack Obsolete
- Robot Boat to Map Tonga Volcano’s Aftermath
- Evidence Grows That Vaccines Lower the Risk of Getting Long Covid
- For Ukraine’s Refugee Children, Schools Promise a Fresh Start
- First Ever Gene Therapy Gel Corrects Rare Genetic Skin Condition
- Turning Cities Into Sponges to Save Lives and Property
- Lab-Grown Pet Food Company Launches in the UK
- Genetically Modified Trees Can Capture More Carbon
- Wearable Tech Can Help Farmers Care for Their Animals
- The First Drug-Releasing Contact Lens Is Here
- Retail Trading Apps Are Spreading Across the World
- Robot Dog Called in to Help Manage Pompeii
- Artificial Intelligence Beats Eight World Champions at Bridge
- Researchers Find New Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer
- Matching Drugs to DNA Is ‘New Era of Medicine’
- InBio Makes Strong Progress Toward CRISPR-Edited Hypoallergenic Cats
- World’s First Space Hotel to Open in 2027
- New Technology Could Make Biopsies a Thing of the Past
- Robot Grills Burgers at Mall in New Jersey
- Drugs Seem to Help Regenerate Mouse Lungs Damaged by Cigarette Smoke
- India To Start Building Ten Nuclear Power Plants
- Rice and Maize Yields Boosted up to 10 Percent by CRISPR Gene Editing
- Woolly Mammoth Revival Raises $75 Million
- Scientists Develop the Largest, Most Detailed Model of the Early Universe to Date
- Belgium to Extend Life of Nuclear Reactors By Another Decade
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