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86 Stories of Progress from 2024
Not everything that happened this year was terrible.
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Humanity’s Origins Paint Our Ancestors as Lovers, Not Fighters
Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals
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Rare footage of 1950's housewife on LSD
One of my favourite clips about some of my favourite experiences. Sort of.
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10 Oldest Civilizations in the World (Updated 2023)
Discover the 10 Oldest Civilizations in the World (Updated 2023) here. Prepare to be transported into a rich & fascinating history on the oldest civilizations that exist.
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The chance events that led to human existence
How have we ended up as the most advanced species on a small blue-green planet, orbiting a seemingly insignificant star, in one of the hundred billion galaxies in the Universe? Science has found some extraordinary answers to this question. Looking back through time, it appears that our existence depends on an apparently unlikely sequence of cosmic moments.
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No more babies? The hormone-altering chemicals threatening human procreation
There’s a looming solution to all of humanity’s problems — by 2045 most men may no longer be able to reproduce because of the impact of hormone-altering chemicals. That's according to Shanna Swan, a leading scholar of reproductive health. “The current state of reproductive affairs can’t continue much longer without threatening human survival,” she told POLITICO.
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Should Defeating Aging Be Humanity’s Foremost Priority?
My contention that defeating aging should be humanity’s foremost priority rests on three statements that jointly imply it...
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How can I keep my brain off sex?
Sexual feelings are not abnormal in themselves. After all, biologically and psychologically men and women are supposed to have a natural and strong attraction for each other.
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Is A Diet That's Healthy For Us Also Better For The Planet? Most Of The Time, Yes
A vast new analysis looked at 15 different food groups, like nuts, fish and red meat, ranking them based on how they influence health and the toll they take on the planet.
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When more women are decision-makers, the environment wins
When more women are involved in group decisions about how to manage land, the group conserves more—particularly when offered financial incentives, new research published this week shows.
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Environment: needs for participation and protection |
The environment, with its complexity, represents the set of essential conditions to the development of humn life, and its conservation responds to an
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Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisation. The new estimate of the massacre of wildlife is made in a major report produced by WWF and involving 59 scientists from across the globe. It finds that the vast and growing consumption of food and resources by the global population is destroying the web of life..
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Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy
On the new triangle trade, and the surprising connection between modern slavery and ecological disaster.
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Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds
The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilisation, say the world’s leading scientists
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Stephen Hawking’s final papers predict the future will be super-rich superhumans vs. regular humans
A collection of the brilliant physicist’s final papers will be published tomorrow in a book called Brief Answers to the Big Questions, but the U.K.’s Sunday Times revealed some excerpts early. In the papers, Hawking mused on the future of everything from artificial intelligence to aliens. But one of the most unsettling things Hawking talks about is the inevitability of the super rich being able to afford to edit their genes and the genes of their offspring through technologies like CRISPR to make them stronger, more intelligent, and more resistant to disease.
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World Economic Forum: There Are Blockchain Solutions For Saving Our Environement
According to the World Economic Forum, there are more than 60 blockchain use cases for solving all the serious environmental challenges that are endangering our planet. The Swiss-based World Economic Forum issued a report named ‘’Building Block(chain) for a Better Planet’’. In that report, you can see all the highlighted blockchain solutions that can potentially […]
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Dental Clinic, Doctor, Services and Treatments Los Angeles, CA | Best Dental Solutions
Dental Clinic, Doctor, Services and Treatments Los Angeles, CA - Our office provides a full range of dental services including tooth color filling, porcelain veneer and crown, bridge, implant, smile makeover, gum treatment, Invisalign, teeth whitening, and sedation dentistry
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Humans 'thrived' after Toba eruption
Early humans may have flourished after the largest volcanic eruption in history, according to new research. Mount Toba erupted in Indonesia about 74,000 years ago. The event was long thought to have caused a volcanic winter, drastically reducing the global human population at the time. Recent excavations in South Africa suggest that settlements there not only endured the cataclysm, but may have "thrived" in its wake.
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If One Appointee Gets His Way, UN Could Recognize Healthy Environment as Human Right
A day after 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries signed a historic regional treaty protecting nature defenders, a United Nations (UN) rapporteur proposed taking environmental rights to the global level. John H. Knox, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, delivered a statement March 5 to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva urging the UN to enshrine a healthy environment as a human right.
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Walmart cashier helps struggling man, says ‘we've forgotten how to love one another'
A Walmart customer said her “heart was warmed” during a recent visit. Spring Bowlin stopped by a Clarksdale, Mississippi, Walmart on Nov. 9. As she was standing in line at the check-out, she noticed the older man in front of her struggling to pay. She said on Facebook, “He looks apologetically back at me and starts taking handfuls of change out of his pockets. He miscounts and starts to get flustered. Gives me a muttered, ‘I’m sorry.’”
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