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"While some national figures are trying to flood the zone with so much chaos that we can’t keep up, other Americans are working hard to bring running water and indoor plumbing to those who still don’t have it," writes TPN member @courtwrites.
"We’re witnessing a reweaving of local fabric, and a renewed curiosity in one another."
reasonstobecheerful.world/wh…
🔦 What if you could turn your tattoo “on” and “off” with a light?
👨⚕️New photochromic dyes are being tested to create visible-invisible tattoos, which could be especially useful in medical tattooing.
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
🇮🇩📉The Daily Dose via @OurWorldInData 🇮🇩📉
In 1984, 86% of Indonesians were living in extreme poverty.
By 2025, that number had plummeted to 3.7%.
🤔How many people is that?
😮The number of people living in extreme poverty in Indonesia has fallen from 140 million to about 10 million.
ourworldindata.org/data-insi…
"AI may be a double-edged sword, but for now, the worst edge is getting all the attention," writes TPN founder @zacharykarabell.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
⏰ Scientists have invented a new kind of clock—nuclear clocks—that could be more portable and reliable than regular ones, and even search for dark matter.
nytimes.com/2026/10/07/scien…
🌍📉The Daily Dose via @OurWorldInData 🌍📉
Since 1900, the global death rate due to malaria has dropped by 96%.
🤔What does that mean?
😬"If it were still as high as it was then, around 16 million people would die from malaria every year instead of 610,000," writes @MaxCRoser.
ourworldindata.org/data-insi…
🧑⚕️ Maryland has become the first state in the US to mandate notification of arterial calcification alongside a mammogram, at no additional cost.
😮Calcification is linked to events like heart failure, heart attack, and stroke.
washingtonpost.com/wellness/…
😎3 Things That Went Right This Week😎
🐢180,000 giant tortoises are living on one of the species’ two natural habitats, the highest count ever recorded.
💧 A startup is working to harvest water from air using waste heat from data centers.
⚖️ Bulgaria has passed a law to protect the media against abusive legal actions known as SLAPP lawsuits that are designed to censor or intimidate critics.
theprogressnetwork.substack.…
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🇷🇼The Daily Dose via @WeAreTechAfrica 🇷🇼
Rwanda's maternal mortality ratio has fallen by 27% since 2020.
🤔How come?
🤳Rwanda says digital health systems helped reduce maternal mortality by improving pregnancy monitoring and identifying high-risk cases earlier.
wearetech.africa/en/fils-uk/…
"'As Nathaniel Hawthorne remarked in 1851 in his proto-blog The American Note-Books, 'Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally.'
Virtue does not come incidentally, but feelings do.
And this is a problem, according to Hawthorne. He continued: 'Make [happiness] the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained,'" writes TPN member @arthurbrooks.
thefp.com/p/arthur-brooks-ha…
The world's heaviest bug, wētāpunga, went extinct in the wild in New Zealand in the 1990s.
But now they're back thanks to a successful breeding program.
theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
💯🌊The Daily Dose via @Oceano_mag 💯🌊
The High Seas Treaty has been ratified by 100 countries, including Germany, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Canada, Australia and Brunei.
🤔What is the High Seas Treaty?
📜It is the world’s first comprehensive legal framework to protect ocean life across the High Seas – an area covering nearly half the planet’s surface – and offers a critical tool in addressing the interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
oceanographicmagazine.com/ne…
