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Grim Old Days: Roger Ekirch’s At Day’s Close, Part 2
What was the world really like when nightfall meant fear, filth, and fire?
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Chelsea Olivia Follett
Weekly Progress Roundup
Self-driving trucks, a prototype thorium reactor, Neuralink's third patient, economic growth in Africa, and more.
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Malcolm Cochran
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Promoting Parenthood in a Free Society
Stephanie Murray joins Chelsea Follett to discuss discourse around falling birth rates, the tension between pro-natalism and classical liberal values…
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Human Progress

April 2025

Weekly Progress Roundup
The second annual Progress Conference, heartening poverty trends, ancient scrolls, and more.
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Malcolm Cochran
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This Earth Day, Progress for Our Species Protects Others
Humanity’s relationship with wildlife is being rewritten.
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Chelsea Olivia Follett
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The Simon Abundance Index 2025
Earth was 518.4 percent more abundant in 2024 than it was in 1980.
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Marian L Tupy
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Gale Pooley
Weekly Progress Roundup
Hopeful news on nuclear energy, the first FDA-cleared brain implant, possible alien bio-signatures, and more.
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Malcolm Cochran
Grim Old Days: Richard Hoffmann’s Environmental History of Medieval Europe
Unraveling the myth of Europe's pristine preindustrial wilderness.
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Chelsea Olivia Follett
Growth Is Good: A Tonic to Anti-Growth Environmentalism
Economic progress and environmental stewardship are complementary.
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Human Progress
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Weekly Progress Roundup
Colossal Biosciences has resurrected the dire wolf, maternal deaths hit all time low, scientists create groundbreaking maps, and more.
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Malcolm Cochran
America’s Commodity Appetite: Evidence of Dematerialization
America's economy has grown better at extracting more value from less stuff.
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Marian L Tupy
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Why Modern Humans Distrust Technology
The answer lies in our evolutionary past.
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Marian L Tupy
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