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East Timor eradicates malaria, despite once being the most malaria-infested nation in Asia
East Timor is the second poorest nation in Asia, and lost 20 percent of its population due to mass killings committed by Indonesian…
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Education
88 percent of students at two leading schools pretend to have more progressive views than they actually have
There’s a “quiet psychological crisis, driven by the demands of ideological conformity” on college campuses today, say two psychology researchers.…
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Economy
China is building lots of cheap nuclear plants
“China is proving that nuclear power in the West is way more expensive than it needs to be. While the US…
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Breastfeeding rises in many countries
A higher fraction of infants are being breastfed in many countries. That includes the world’s fourth most populous country, Indonesia,…
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Science and Technology
Lithium supplements may help with Alzheimer’s disease
“New research links lithium deficiency to Alzheimer’s. After finding that dementia patients often have low lithium levels, a group of…
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Education
York College’s social work program purges the term ‘field’, calling it racist
“The City University of New York’s York College’s Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term ‘field’ from its…
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Business
Fur farming declines dramatically
“Fur farming is in steep decline. Between 2014 and 2024, the number of animals in fur farms fell from over…
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Science and Technology
Scientists make rhino horns radioactive to thwart traffickers in South Africa
“To help crack down on poaching, scientists in South Africa are injecting rhino horns with low-level radioactive isotopes that are…
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Education
Central Washington University punishes student who called employees ‘incompetent’
Central Washington University “required Victor Unger to take an ‘anger management assessment’ and apologize after he called financial aid staff…
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Education
77% of young people have brought a parent to a job interview
“77% of Gen Z respondents admitted to bringing a parent to a job interview, and 53% said their parent had…
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Science and Technology
Gene therapy restores a man’s sight, giving him his life back
“Doctors in Italy have restored a man’s sight using an innovative gene therapy. The treatment involved injecting a viral vector…
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Business
Startup begins work on fusion power plant to supply energy to Microsoft
“Helion Energy has broken ground on the site of a planned fusion power plant, part of an optimistic initiative to…
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World’s tiniest snake is found, 20 years after it went missing
“The world’s smallest snake has been rediscovered in Barbados, 20 years after its last sighting,” reports The Guardian: The Barbados threadsnake,…
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Scientists Finally Identify Killer Microbe Behind Disease Killing Sea Stars
“Since 2013, an epidemic of sea star wasting disease along the Pacific Coast of North America has caused billions of…
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Business
BP Makes Largest Oil and Gas Discovery in 25 Years
“BP has made its largest oil and gas discovery in 25 years offshore Brazil,” reports Reuters. BP plans “to create a…
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Japan builds state-of-the-art underwater earthquake-detection system
“To help mitigate future seismic disasters, Japan has built a sprawling undersea earthquake-detection system capable of providing up to 20…
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Robot taxis proliferating around the world, including the Middle East
“Uber and Baidu are teaming up to bring autonomous taxis to the world. Baidu’s robotaxis, which have already logged more…
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Divorce rate is down
“U.S. marriages in the early 2010s are more stable than during any other decade since the 1950s….15 percent of couples…
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Egg-laying chickens in Sweden are cage-free, without any legal ban on cages
“Every egg-laying chicken in Sweden is now cage-free thanks to a multi-decade persuasion campaign—no legal ban on cages required,” reports The…
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Sludge-filled river becomes thriving ecosystem
“For more than a century, Germany’s Emscher river carried sewage and industrial sludge through the Ruhr, earning a reputation as…
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Rare beetle bred in captivity for the first time
“Conservationists have celebrated breeding one of England’s rarest insects in captivity for the first time,” reports the BBC: The Species…
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New chemical process produces essential battery metals with no waste
A company in New Zealand, “Aspiring Materials, has developed a patented chemical process that produces multiple valuable minerals from” low-value…
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Illinois legislature adds $11 billion more in unfunded pension liabilities, which will require future tax hikes
“Rather than taking steps to improve Chicago city pensions, Springfield lawmakers are pushing them $11.1 billion deeper into the hole,”…
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South Asia vaccinates the highest number of kids ever
“South Asia has reached its highest-ever immunization coverage for children, according to new data released today by WHO and UNICEF…
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Baltic ringed seal population increases five fold
The Baltic ringed seal population “increased five fold since the 1970s when long-term overhunting and environmental toxins put the species…
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Tires get better and cheaper
It takes 95% fewer work hours to buy tires than it did in 1920, notes Human Progress. “In 1920, you could…
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Some useful people are being deported, even as criminal illegal aliens remain in the U.S.
Under the Laken Riley Act, the government is supposed to focus on deporting criminal illegal aliens. But instead, useful people,…
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Virginia Governor Youngkin’s regulatory reforms saved $1.2 billion per year, cut cost of building a home by $24,000
“With just 4 employees” in his regulatory office, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has “saved residents $1.2 billion per year” and…
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Bureaucrats cause skin damage by blocking access to more effective sunscreens
“Americans are being sunburned by bureaucracy,” says the Cato Institute. “Europeans use modern UVA filters like bemotrizinol, but we can’t…
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Rents fall by up to 45% in cities that build more housing
“Rental prices in some of the country’s largest cities are falling—some by almost 45 percent, according to new data” from…
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Illinois legislators allocate $500,000 to a non-existent college, yet again
“For yet another year, Illinois legislators allocated $500,000 to a college that no longer exists,” reports The College Fix. “Though…
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World’s second poorest country is eliminating the blinding disease of trachoma
The incredibly poor country of “Burundi has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, bringing prevalence of the blindness-causing disease…
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Reforestation accelerates in England
14,246 acres of new woodland have been planted in England over the past year, a 27% increase over the year…
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Air becomes much less polluted in Europe, for all major pollutants
“A recent report on European air pollution found that all main pollutants (nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, sulfur oxides, ammonia, and fine-particle pollution) fell…
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Thousands die in heat wave in Europe due to lack of air conditioning
“Heat waves kill more people in Europe than the number of Americans killed by guns,” notes Paul Matzko of the Institute for…
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