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99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2021

What if bad news wasn’t the only news? — If you were asked to list the top global news stories of 2021, off the top of your head, what would they be? Chances are you’d come up with some combination of COVID-19, economic woes, political conflict, Afghanistan, natural disasters, and maybe some space billionaires and Free Britney thrown in…

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99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2021
99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2021
Good News

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Published in Future Crunch

·Aug 24, 2021

Collapse, Renewal and the Rope of History

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. — This story first appeared in the Future Crunch newsletter, a regular roundup of good news, mind-blowing science and the best bits of the internet. You can subscribe for free over here. It’s been more than a month since you last heard from us. A full moon has waxed and waned…

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Collapse, Renewal and the Rope of History
Collapse, Renewal and the Rope of History

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Published in Future Crunch

·Jan 17, 2021

Wormtongue Inc.

Why the mainstream news, and not social media or Donald Trump, is the greatest threat to American democracy today. — “Ever his whispering was in your ears, poisoning your thought, chilling your heart, weakening your limbs, while others watched and could do nothing, for your will was in his keeping.” Well that escalated steadily for four years. The fallout from the #MAGA riot is pretty much the only story on…

Media

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Wormtongue Inc.
Wormtongue Inc.
Media

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Published in Future Crunch

·Dec 21, 2020

99 Good News Stories From 2020 You Probably Didn’t Hear About

Even during the darkest of times, there’s been hope. If we want more people to devote their energy to making progress against large global problems, we should make sure that more people know that it is possible to make progress against such problems. @MaxCRoser There’s been so much loss, grief and heartbreak in 2020 that it feels almost wrong…

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99 Good News Stories From 2020 You Probably Didn’t Hear About
99 Good News Stories From 2020 You Probably Didn’t Hear About
Good News

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Published in Future Crunch

·Nov 14, 2020

The First Troll President

How Donald Trump pioneered the never-ending fireside rant, and made sure none of us could ever look away. — In Internet slang, a troll is a person who intentionally upsets people by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing unrelated discussions, either for the troll’s amusement or a specific gain.

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The First Troll President
The First Troll President
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Published in Future Crunch

·Jul 17, 2020

2020 Is The Worst Year Ever For Fossil Fuels

The coronavirus pandemic has set off the most devastating downturn in the industry’s 150-year history, one from which, ultimately, it may never recover. —

Energy

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2020 Is The Worst Year Ever For Fossil Fuels
2020 Is The Worst Year Ever For Fossil Fuels
Energy

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Published in Future Crunch

·May 1, 2020

Portal Economics

Why the coronavirus pandemic offers us an escape from a much bigger mess. — “It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with…

Coronavirus

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Portal Economics
Portal Economics
Coronavirus

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Published in Future Crunch

·Apr 10, 2020

The Bio-Political Straitjacket

How COVID-19 exposes the limits of our economic and political imaginations — “Nobody saw it coming. While that statement is technically true (most experts thought it would be a flu virus, not a coronavirus), you can’t say we weren’t warned. Back in 2007 for example, the US Department of Health and Services conducted an audit of the federal government’s strategic stockpile, and…

Coronavirus

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The Bio-Political Straitjacket
The Bio-Political Straitjacket
Coronavirus

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Published in Future Crunch

·Mar 20, 2020

We Are Waves Of The Same Sea

Losing the plot, and charting a new course in the time of coronavirus — Last week, a large consignment of crates arrived in Italy, addressed to the country’s Civil Protection Department, from the consumer electronics giant, Xiaomi. Inside were tens of thousands of FFP3 face masks for Italy’s healthcare workers, a “token of gratitude to the Italian people” from the Chinese company for making…

Science

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We Are Waves Of The Same Sea
We Are Waves Of The Same Sea
Science

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Published in Future Crunch

·Feb 13, 2020

Superfluous Sacks of Meat in a World of Metal and Machine

The debate over Automageddon is a distraction from the main event — This story was first published in Issue 4 of Maximus Magazine (November 2019) The reports arrive thick and fast these days. From the big end of town, glossy 100-page monsters with stylish graphics and ‘seven key takeaways for the future of work,’ that land in your inbox with an almost…

Technology

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Superfluous Sacks of Meat in a World of Metal and Machine
Superfluous Sacks of Meat in a World of Metal and Machine
Technology

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