tonymmorley.bsky.social
Progress studies and human flourishing writer, researcher, and communicator. Classical liberal, Fellow: O'Shaughnessy Ventures, Founder: www.theupwing.com Links: lnk.bio/tonymmorley
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"This opens the door to the creation of wheat varieties that can exploit soil microbes to provide nutrients and so reduce the need to use large amounts of artificial inorganic fertilisers."
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Yes, women live longer than man, but what's more interesting is that the people of middle and high-income countries (82y Taiwan) live longer than those of low-income (67y Tanzania). Money can't buy love, but it can buy longevity. ourworldindata.org/grapher/life...
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Furthermore, among five children with 24-week assessments, three experienced improvements that brought their hearing to “nearly normal” or “normal” levels.”
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“Among 11 participants with at least one post-treatment assessment, 10 demonstrated a notable hearing improvement at various decibel levels, according to researchers.
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Women live longer in every country. Root Source @hannahritchie.bsky.social for @ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
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"He gave "co-scientist" - a tool made by Google - a short prompt asking it about the core problem he had been investigating and it reached the same conclusion in 48 hours."
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It's a big stretch, but I'd like to be able to download some of the most important graphs as video clips.. Also for the love of all that is progress, can we please update/reboot this page — ourworldindata.org/a-history-of...
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The success is attributable to an increased number of emergency obstetric and newborn care facilities, a growing health workforce, a strengthened obstetric referral network, capacity building, mentorship, and the conduct of maternal and perinatal death reviews and surveillance.
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“Internet users in China rose from 2% in 2000 to 77% in 2023, while Indonesia’s users grew from 1% to 69%. The pace has been slower in South Asia, with India reaching 43% by 2020 and Pakistan 33% by 2022.” — Our World In Data
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India adds an average of 2.7 megawatts of installed solar an hour, every hour, 7 days a week," "These additions brought India’s total renewable energy capacity to 209.44 GW, with solar accounting for 47% of the total." www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/10/india-adds-record-24-5-gw-of-solar-in-2024
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"These additions brought India’s total renewable energy capacity to 209.44 GW, with solar accounting for 47% of the total."
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"Despite the host of obstacles, scientists are working on clinical trials testing half a dozen different vaccine candidates. All target the primary surface protein—or capsid protein—that encases a norovirus molecule, but they use several different approaches,"
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"Nineteen years later, she is cancer-free and the mother of two children. The remarkable success story, published on 17 February in Nature Medicine, is the longest reported cancer remission following treatment with engineered immune cells called CAR T cells."
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"Simply spreading crushed rock on fields—as farmers have done for centuries with lime—seems refreshingly low tech. “That’s part of its elegance,"
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"The nanosensor correctly identified healthy individuals 98% of the time, and identified people with pancreatic cancer with 73% accuracy. It always distinguished between individuals with cancer and those with other pancreatic diseases."
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Growing wealth globally across countries and cultures, highlights a larger global trend of poverty reduction and economic growth fuelled by free markets, falling trade barriers. Between 1800 and 2023, global extreme poverty fell from 81% to 9.7% as a result. Below: Gapminder www.gapminder.org/tools/
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"Life was hard during the Medieval ages; even something as simple as lighting was an expensive and time-consuming affair. So, how did our unwashed ancestors go about bringing some light into their lives?" — How Expensive Were Candles youtu.be/mW8DZPTT13M?...
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"In the 1300s, one million units of lighting — a lumen-hour — would have cost around £40,800 in 2000 prices. By 2006, this had fallen to £2.90. That is a 14,000-fold decline." — MaxCRoser and Hannah Ritchie for
@ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/light-at-night