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)

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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)

What if Putin's gone?

An atlas of human suffering

+ Putin's mind, failed ideas, the best way to keep up with the war in Ukraine (#384)

The infamous letter

Extended version for everyone, including some advice on following the Russian invasion into Ukraine. (#383)

Why war?

+ Understanding Disability, Big Skills, Climate Optimism, 🐯 (#382)

How many micromorts are you comfortable with?

+ New World of War, Boris, Lithium (#381)

guest curated

Special Delivery: A climate issue

Guest curated by Prof. Kimberly Nicholas, sustainability scientist.

Andy Warhol's take on Cryptopunks and the value of everything

+ Pronouns, World Quiz, Radical Candor (#380)

What it means to lose, and to find

+ Artificial wombs, Explaining things, Mushroom Color Atlas (#379)