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Have Eggs Ever Been More Expensive?
The money price of eggs is higher than in 1919, but the time price is lower.
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Gale Pooley
Weekly Progress Roundup
Egg prices are coming down, drones are helping Sherpas on Mount Everest, a yearly injection could prevent HIV, and more.
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Malcolm Cochran
Grim Old Days: Robert Muchembled’s Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times
Putrid smells were a defining feature of the past that is now largely forgotten.
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ChelseaOliviaFollett
Predictions of the End of the World, Redux
Degrowth would be worse for humanity than any climate catastrophe it purports to prevent.
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Maarten Boudry
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Weekly Progress Roundup
AI is helping gardeners, Cambodia is nearly landmine-free, an innovative titanium heart reached an important milestone, and more.
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Malcolm Cochran
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Saul Zimet
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An Update on the Trump Tariffs
Scott Lincicome joins Marian Tupy to discuss how President Trump's trade policies will affect American prosperity, national security, government…
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Human Progress
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Global Trade Has Made Us Richer
Daniel Griswold joins Chelsea Follett to discuss the true legacy of globalization.
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Human Progress
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Gasoline Abundance Increases with Population Growth
Since 1950, the global population has increased by 229 percent while the time price of gasoline fell by 35 percent.
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Gale Pooley
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Weekly Progress Roundup
The Blue Ghost lunar lander aces its touchdown, a new breakthrough makes us safer from superbugs, and the quest to resurrect extinct species takes a…
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Saul Zimet
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Grim Old Days: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past
What did all-too-common child mortality mean to the people of history?
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Human Progress
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Weekly Progress Roundup
Global suicides are down, Waymo keeps on growing, a gene therapy healed deaf children, and more.
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Malcolm Cochran
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Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking: Love, Like Resources, Does Not Run Out
A new study shows us that the idea of “inexhaustibility” applies just as well to intangible assets as to physical ones.
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Human Progress
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