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November 2024

Reasons to Feel Thankful in 2024
There are so many real reasons for gratitude—regardless of whether or not your preferred candidate won the recent election.
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Weekly Progress Roundup
AI is becoming more efficient, rising cancer diagnoses signal progress, ChatGPT may replace your doctor.
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Malcolm Cochran
Thanksgiving Dinner Will Be 8.8 Percent Cheaper This Year
Be thankful for the increase in human knowledge that transforms atoms into valuable resources.
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Gale Pooley
Weekly Progress Roundup
Waymo’s expansion continues, robots smooth the demographic transition, researchers develop tool that “harnesses evolution.”
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Malcolm Cochran
Myths About American Inequality
John Early joins Chelsea Follett to discuss popular misconceptions about inequality in the United States and the measurement errors behind them.
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Human Progress
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Weekly Progress Roundup
More efficient beef, mass genome sequencing, the next Starship test, and more.
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Malcolm Cochran
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We’re All Billionaires Now
We may not have a billion dollars in the bank, but we enjoy the benefits of many billions of dollars invested on our behalf.
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Human Progress
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Weekly Progress Roundup
The global march of progress has resumed
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Malcolm Cochran
In NYT, Steven Pinker Says Progress Goes On
American life is not a hellscape of carnage and decline.
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Human Progress

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