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Washington DC Katılım Ağustos 2012
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There is a big problem with the autism epidemic: It doesn’t exist.
In many cases, the kid labeled “on the spectrum” is the same train‑obsessed third‑grader your grandfather knew, only now he’s been assigned a diagnosis.
humanprogress.org/the-myth-of-th…
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A large part of the decline in infant mortality is thanks to pasteurization of milk
Even today "consumption of unpasteurized dairy products was associated with 840 times more illnesses... and 45 times more hospitalizations... than was consumption of pasteurized dairy products"
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
Before 1850: all milk was raw, drunk by the gallon, and considered medicine. Before 1900: everyone ate eggs, beef, and butter without a single thought about cholesterol. Before 1910: every household used salt to preserve meat and fish through the winter. Before 1920: everything was cooked in tallow, lard, dripping, and butter. Before 1950: there was no obesity epidemic, no diabetes epidemic, no childhood ADHD diagnosis on every street. Now consider the timeline. The seed oils arrived. The margarine arrived. The breakfast cereal arrived. The low-fat yoghurts arrived. The packaged convenience food arrived. The supermarket aisles filled up with products that had no equivalent on a 1900 dinner table. And the experts are still trying to convince you that chronic disease is caused by the foods that fed humanity for the entire stretch of recorded history. Not the new arrivals. The old reliables. Have a think about who benefits from that conclusion.
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"Negotiated over nine months and agreed in December, the deal will cut or eliminate tariffs on 95% of New Zealand’s exports to India, while making all Indian exports to New Zealand duty-free."
humanprogress.org/india-and-new-…
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As birth rates fall and the burdens of parenting loom large, technologies that reduce everyday household labor could make family life far more manageable.
humanprogress.org/how-robot-hous…
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Since the 1990s, tropical diseases such as Guinea worm disease, trachoma, and sleeping sickness have become far less common across Africa.
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A barrel of oil in the Stone Age was worthless.
A barrel of oil in an industrial civilization can heat homes, move trucks, and power factories.
Nature gives us atoms, but it is humans who give those atoms value.
humanprogress.org/the-most-impor…
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"The World Health Organization has validated Australia for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem."
humanprogress.org/australia-elim…
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Paper has become dramatically more affordable.
In 1826, it took 100 hours of work to earn enough money to purchase a ream of 500 sheets of paper.
Today, that's fallen to just 13 minutes.
humanprogress.org/two-centuries-…
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Learn more about Beccaria and other Heroes of Progress in our book: heroesofprogress.com
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Thanks in part to Cesare Beccaria, cruel and unusual punishments are no longer the norm in much of the world, and a fathomless amount of human suffering and injustice has been avoided.
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Computers don’t have an inborn desire to survive or dominate.
Those drives are products of natural selection, not inherent properties of intelligence.
humanprogress.org/why-hal-9000-w…
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From my essay “broken skulls”
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp
David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."
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"Pakistan’s Punjab provincial assembly this week passed a new law banning marriage under the age of 18 for both boys and girls."
humanprogress.org/pakistans-punj…
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The time price of paper has fallen by 99.78 percent over the last 200 years.
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Explore the data: humanprogress.org/dataset/cereal…
Read more about this trend: humanprogress.org/trends/yields-…
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Thanks to hybridization, nitrogen fertilizer, improved pest controls, and genetically enhanced crops, the global average cereal yield has tripled since 1961.
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Some of our evolved instincts—like valuing reciprocity, rewarding contribution, and building reputations for trustworthiness—are essential foundations of prosperous societies.
Others, such as the zero-sum thinking, suspicion of profit, and the faith that authorities can command prices, reflect cognitive shortcuts ill-suited to modern environments of decentralized abundance.
humanprogress.org/why-our-econom…
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"Just a few years ago, people would be hard-pressed to find mussels around the Lynnhaven River. But James said officials have recently seen an ‘explosion’ of the muddy mollusks."
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