The true silent majority

+ One of the most moving articles I've ever read (#404)

🏝 Summer Edition #2

Five highlights from the year so far, two book recommendations and a podcast to binge on

🏝 Summer Edition #1

Five highlights from the year so far, two book recommendations and a podcast to binge on.

A unique perspective

+ The world's top thinkers, The universe for laypeople, How to be more creative (#403)

A profound feeling of...what?

+ The meaning of life, Making remote work work, One of the coolest applications of augmented reality I've seen so far (#402)

guest curated

Special Delivery: Solutions

🙋‍♂️ Guest curated by Peter Yeung, award-winning freelance journalist.

Monkey Shortage

+ An impossible riddle, Nuclear scenarios, Absurd trolley problems (#401)

400 🥳

How to stop abortions, new solutions for the climate crisis, dealing with imposter syndrome, and more...

Where did all the money go? 💸

+ Green steel, AI revealed, Mothers in the hottest city on earth (#399)

5 Rules for Challenging Conversations

The rational case for optimism • Why people avoid news • Escher's Rubik's Cube (#398)

Life lesson: Stay on the bus

+ The photograph that changed everything, Thailand stepping in, How to improve to-do lists (#397)

Nostalgia for the future we thought we had

+ Edward Hopper's Elephant, Putin's Off-Ramp, Ava DuVernay's Wisdom, A world without ✈️ (#396)

Featured

Books that make you feel hopeful

Weekly Filet Book Club 2022 📚 Curated by the community 💜

The Putin Show

+ When extreme becomes normal, Hidden carbon footprints, Trillions of 🌳 (#395)

Wanna come on an adventure?

+ Ripple Effects, Human Progress, You probably just did something for the last time (#394)

Beyond Doomscrolling and Into Action

+ Bits of Advice, Russians in the Basement, Realtime Dracula (#393)

📚 What book makes you feel hopeful?

Share your recommendation for the Weekly Filet Book Club and discover great books you didn't know about.

Are we living in the most important century?

This week: Elongated and Musk-free (#392)

Look for the helpers

+ Electric Planes, Getting Cars out of Cities, Giving Feedback on the Earth Simulation (#391)

guest curated

Special Delivery: First-Hand Food

🙋‍♀️ Guest curated by Hannah Ritchie, Head of Research at Our World in Data.

How to future-proof your life

+ Living through war, visualised. Why memorising random facts is useful. Non-existent food designed by artificial intelligence (#390)

Hear me out because it might just work

+ Ever-repeating history, When AI helps remember a dead sister, Europe's double standards (#389)

What if vaccines were contagious, too?

+ Effective global develpoment, demystifying disability, Existential risks, Paddington Bear framed for murder (#388)

In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things

Extended members-only version free to read for everyone!

Witness what needs to be witnessed

+ The big pandemic what-ifs, The peace Russia could afford, Spotify spam (#386)