Month: December 2024

Good News Friday

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  • The top 10 energy transition developments of 2024. The Progress Playbook.
  • How AI monitoring is cutting stillbirths and neonatal deaths in a clinic in Malawi by 82% in three years. The Guardian.
  • MIT lab designs biodegradable material to replace microplastics in beauty products. Good Good Good.
  • The gray seal population at a remote UK coastline has doubled in three years. BBC.
  • Robots are fueling the next wave of solar farm development. Bloomberg.
  • Between 2000 and 2020, access to safe water in China increased significantly from 45.7% to 91.3%, access to sanitary toilets rose from 18.7% to 78.5%, and access to hygiene bathing facilities climbed from 26.0% to 88.4%. BMC.

For more good news, check out Fix the News and The Progress Network.

500th Post

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Wow. I can’t believe I’ve made it to 500 posts. I began this blog back in January 2017 so I’ve been at this for almost 8 years. The time has really flown by. I started out with the goal of posting at least once a month, now I post at least once a week. I typically never look at my site statics, but now seems like a good time to check them out.

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Evil and Some Other TV Shows I’ve Watched Recently

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After yesterday’s post in which I expressed my disappointment in Deadpool & Wolverine, it occurs to me I tend to spend more time reviewing movies and TV shows I don’t like while not even mentioning shows I do like. Shows I’ve enjoyed recently include Evil, The Penguin, Agatha All Along, and Dune: Prophecy, but I don’t have much to say about them other than I like them. I think this is because when I love a show, I simply go along for the ride, but when I don’t like a show, my brain has to do something to keep from being bored, so I start to analyze it and pick it apart.

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Deadpool & Wolverine

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I remember thinking the first two Deadpool movies were hilarious, plus there’s been a lot of positive reviews for the third film, so I was looking forward to Deadpool & Wolverine. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. I didn’t laugh once. The main joke of the movie seems to be that’s it’s funny to play a pop song during a fight scene as they do this repeatedly. I think the first time I saw a show play upbeat music during a violent scene, it was an episode of the X-Files back in the 90s. I was impressed at the time since it was so unexpected, but decades later, upbeat music playing during a bloody scene no longer feels novel.

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Good News Friday

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  • Middle schooler finds novel compound in goose poop. Scientists say it may fight cancer. Good Good Good.
  • Sudan rolls out first malaria vaccines. Gavi.
  • Amazon deforestation in Brazil plunges 31% to lowest level in 9 years. Mongabay.
  • 2024 will be the first full year in which renewables generate more electricity than fossil fuels in the UK. The Progress Playbook.
  • India now outpaces China in green investments as renewables surge. The Progress Playbook.
  • Five medical breakthroughs in 2024. Scientific Discovery.
  • Hawaiian crows return to wild for 1st time in more than 20 years. Axios.

For more good news, check out Fix the News and The Progress Network.

Good News Friday

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  • India sees 79% drop in AIDS deaths, 44% decline in HIV infections since 2010. ABP.
  • During 2000–2022, 47 priority countries achieved maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination, contributing to global declines in neonatal tetanus cases (89%) and neonatal tetanus deaths (84%). CDC.
  • Vietnam’s per capita income has risen to about 4,650 USD from only 185 USD in 1993. Additionally, 10 extremely disadvantaged coastal and island communes successfully got rid of poverty. Vietnam Plus.
  • Cervical cancer deaths are plummeting among young U.S. women. Science News.
  • In these nine African countries, average incomes have more than doubled since 1990. As a result, the share of people living in extreme poverty and the rate of child mortality have declined in all nine countries. Our World in Data.
  • Norway is on the cusp of completing a transition away from combustion cars. Bloomberg.
  • China’s power firms are on track to cut coal’s share of annual electricity generation to below 60% for the first time in 2024. Reuters.
  • In 10 seconds, AI model detects cancerous brain tumor often missed during surgery. Michigan Medicine.
  • One genomic test can diagnose nearly any infection. UCSF.
  • Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor. Hub.

For more good news, check out Fix the News and The Progress Network.