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Jason's links and tweets, 2023-02-01

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Jason's links and tweets, 2023-02-01
Here on the Progress Forum (ICYMI)
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Here on the Progress Forum (ICYMI)

  • Eli Dourado AMA (lots of great questions and detailed answers!)
  • When did England start seeing itself as a commercial nation? (Anton Howes)
  • The progress movement could use some explicit cause areas

Announcements

  • New book on factors affecting medical progress (via @markkhurana)
  • ARIA, the ARPA of the UK, now legally exists and has a budget (via @logangraham)

Links

  • Medieval peasants likely did not work fewer hours than we do (via @jmhorp)
  • “Do-it-yourself crafts only exist when you no longer have to do everything yourself”
  • Oklo has submitted a plan for a nuclear fuel recycling facility (via @oklo)
  • Our World in Data topic page on Democracy (via @bbherre)
  • “The whole saga feels to me like it’s part of a climate politics of sacrifice”

Quotes

  • The amazing progress in Asian agriculture in the late 20th century
  • A brilliant passage from John McPhee’s The Control of Nature

Retweets

  • A lot of public health pronouncements don’t take into account that people enjoy things
  • If you want to see a progress studies community on Hive.one, nominate it here
  • A 1931 article on the potential for rocket-based passenger travel (@1517fund)
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