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"The number of tourists visiting African countries grew by almost 8% last year—the fastest growth in the world...
It’s being driven in large part, experts say, by a growing African middle class."
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Making electricity is becoming cleaner across the U.S., China, and the EU.
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RT @sapinker: Mental Health Crisis—or Crisis of Overdiagnosis? By @AdamOmaryPhD profectusmag.com/mental-heal… via @Profectus Magazine
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RT @sapinker: What If AI Chatbots Are Saving Lives? Don't ban them based on anecotes, say @adamomaryphd and Jennifer Huddleston https://…
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What happened to the Rockefeller, Carnegie and Astor by the way?
According to the “law of capitalism” (r>g) their wealth should have grown ineluctably faster than GDP unless there is a wealth tax.
By now, assuming a 4% spread between r and g, these families fortunes should represent roughly 200% of GDP. Is that actually true?
Or maybe somehow the wealth of these families got ultimately diluted in other ways? Maybe we should wonder in what ways
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In a study of over 1,000 users of Replika, a popular AI chatbot, 30 reported without solicitation that their artificial companion saved them from suicide.
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In Europe, until the late seventeenth century, the ordinary home might have had a table, some benches, a chair, a cupboard, fireplace tools, and cooking implements—and that was about it.
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Scientists and engineers are finding new ways to turn pollution and waste into valuable resources.
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"Amazon is constantly innovating to reduce the amount of water we use in our data centers, resulting in a 52% improvement in water efficiency since 2021."
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Roughly half of Americans with a diagnosable mental health condition never seek professional help; stigma, cost, and fear of involuntary intervention keep them silent.
For some of them, a chatbot is their most reliable form of emotional support.
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The global suicide rate has fallen substantially since its peak in the 1990s.
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"When each revision expands the boundaries of mental illness further into the range of normal human experience, rising diagnosis rates may tell us more about incentives for overdiagnosis than about mental health itself." - Adam Omary, @HumanProgress profectusmag.com/mental-heal…
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Trade has been a driving force behind rising living standards across the globe.
Far from harming the poor, open markets have helped lift billions out of extreme poverty while improving health, education, and life expectancy.
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"Mangroves declined globally before 2010, but have mostly recovered since then, with both forest loss and degradation (declining canopy cover) rates slowing over time."
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Americans have enjoyed extraordinary gains in material abundance, yet housing stands out as a stubborn exception.
The problem is not an inevitable market failure but the predictable result of artificial constraints on supply.
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Within the context of a market economy, human beings not only use resources, but replenish and enlarge them.
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Growing concern over smartphones and social media has fueled claims that screens are driving an epidemic of youth mental illness.
But the evidence for this narrative is often mixed or overstated, with many studies failing to account for underlying social and psychological factors.
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