Good News Friday

  • North Carolina hospital company forgives debts of 11,500 people. NBC News.
  • In a world first, a woman’s type 1 diabetes is reversed by her own stem cells. Nature.
  • Global poverty rate has returned to pre-pandemic levels. World Bank.
  • Sierra Leone almost halves maternal mortality in five years. UNICEF (PDF link).
  • Self-driving Waymo vehicles get into injury-causing crashes less than one-third as often, per mile, as human-driven vehicles and a non-Waymo vehicle bore primary responsibility for most if not all of these crashes. Understanding AI.
  • India’s one-horned Asian rhino population has almost tripled in the past four decades thanks to conservation and anti-poaching efforts. New Straits Times.
  • 14 of the 38 OECD countries have acheived a coal-free power system. Ember.
  • Jimmy Carter’s first century. Breaking the News.

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