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Send us a text Happy Pride everyone! In this episode: super reactors, more renewable wins, need to know information for people without a life plan and some sound advice! Links: https://www.neimagazine.com/news/china-refuels-thorium-reactor-without shutdown/ https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/we-are-unbelievably-blessed-first-ever-custom-crispr-therapy-saves-boy-worst-rare-genetic?ref=fixthenews.com https://www.nathanielbullard.com/?ref=fixthenews.com https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/04/pakistans-22-gw-solar-shock-how-a-fragile-state-went-full-clean-energy/?ref=fixthenews.com https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/03/05/balcony-solar-gains-unanimous-bipartisan-support-in-utah/?ref=fixthenews.com https://rmi.org/insight/partnerships-for-power-unlocking-scale-for-interconnected-minigrids-in-nigeria/?ref=fixthenews.com Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode, still more great clean energy news, staggering progress in sub-Saharan Africa, the craziest Geek Squad call ever, the passing of an absolute LEGEND and more! REFERENCES FROM THIS EPISODE https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-review-2025/ https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/04/california-leads-the-way-as-ev-charging-ports-outnumber-gas-nozzles/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-just-put-chinas-co2-emissions-into-reverse-for-first-time/?ref=fixthenews.com https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/2025-annual-meetings-decade-life-transforming-actions-provides-drinking-water-and-sanitation-962-million-africans-83396?ref=fixthenews.com https://phys.org/news/2025-05-voyager-revives-backup-thrusters.html?ref=fixthenews.com#google_vignette https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j71402z58o Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode, Zambia energy approval, Alzheimer’s research advancements, Uganda crushes an Ebola outbreak, actual real life heroes and the first ever flashback episode! Links: https://list.solar/news/zambia-cuts-solar/ https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/05/scientists-use-living-human-brain-tissue-to-model-alzheimers-to-accelerate-search-for-the-cure/ https://www.afro.who.int/countries/uganda/news/uganda-declares-end-ebola-outbreak?ref=fixthenews.com https://www.genengnews.com/topics/drug-discovery/psychedelics-may-reverse-effects-of-neuroimmune-interactions-that-drive-fear-responses/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/21/goldman-environmental-prize-recognises-activists-fighting-corporate-power-and-political-corruption?ref=fixthenews.com Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode I talk about huge drops in poverty in India, loads of health measures and social protections for marginalized people across the world. Plus I address some viewer/listener notes and give what I’m pretty sure is the very first book unrecommendation! https://www.afro.who.int/countries/chad/news/health-ministers-launch-landmark-polio-vaccination-campaign-protect-83-million-children-lake-chad?ref=fixthenews.com https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/04/a-5-blood-test-could-help-prevent-thousands-of-heart-attacks-and-strokes-study-finds/ https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/0445391c-9b64-4e6e-ad99-617dce4f27bc https://www.energymonitor.ai/news/kenya-universal-electricity-iea/?cf-view https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/google-created-a-new-ai-model-for-talking-to-dolphins/?ref=fixthenews.com https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/04/11/eu-agrees-ban-on-hazardous-substances-in-toys_6740094_143.html?ref=fixthenews.com https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/countries-reach-historic-who-pandemic-agreement-afp-reports-2025-04-16/?ref=fixthenews.com https://archive.md/QUtz1 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-structure-that-filters-consciousness-identified/ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/lab-grown-teeth-might-become-an-alternative-to-fillings-following-research-breakthrough Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode Nile goes through a shiny new Top Ten Good News Stories, a new entry into the Nerd of the Week cannon, a funny book and his new assistant/coach/possible best friend? Links from the episode: FInland ahead of schedule on coal phase out https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/04/01/finland-ahead-of-schedule-on-coal-phase-out-as-helsinkis-salmisaari-plant-closes Wind power in Uruguay https://prismbysugandha.substack.com/p/winds-of-change-in-uruguay?ref=fixthenews.com Iceland embraces 4 hour work week: https://www.wecb.fm/iceland-embraced-a-4-day-workweek-in-2019-now-nearly-six-years-on-all-gen-z-forecasts-have-materialized/?ref=fixthenews.com Thailand bans corporal punishment of minors https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Thailand-bans-corporal-punishment-of-minors-62773.html?ref=fixthenews.com German Wastewater fuel https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-start-produces-climate-neutral-160826519.html Stopping domestic abuse with trip to bank https://www.hestia.org/blog/how-to-access-safe-spaces Yemeni mobile bee hives https://reasonstobecheerful.world/yemeni-tradition-bees-tazeeb/?utm_source=Reasons+to+be+Cheerful&utm_campaign=8cb97df68a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_09_01_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_89fb038efe-8cb97df68a-518379760 Fire resistant housing https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/04/californias-first-wildfire-resilient-neighborhood-in-escondido/ Dementia rates still dropping https://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/dementia-incidence-still-dropping-birth-cohort-data-say-yes?ref=fixthenews.com Antibiotics breakthrough Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode Nile talks about another L for Big Oil, continued progress for Solar energy, a new breakthrough in curing substance abuse, a BUNCH of new segments and much more! References from this episode: 10 - French lawmakers eliminated discriminatory rule https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/03/french-lawmakers-end-a-discriminatory-voting-rule/ 9 - Cereals Killing it https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-cereal-yields-have-increased-a-lot-but-millet-and-sorghum-lag-behind 8 - This Week in Good News Nile Doesn’t Quite Understand https://humanprogress.org/mutated-dna-restored-to-normal-in-gene-therapy-advance/ 7 - Armenia and Azerbaijan stop fighting https://www.reuters.com/world/armenia-says-it-is-ready-sign-peace-agreement-with-azerbaijan-2025-03-13/ 6 - Another L for Big Oil https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13032025/landmark-ruling-uncontacted-indigenous-peoples-rights-ecuador-oil-industry/ 5 - More solar baby https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/03/13/bloombergnef-expects-up-to-700-gw-of-new-solar-in-2025/ 4 - Deep Brain stimulation https://brain-pacer.com/ 3 - HIV TREATMENT https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/14/1113225/annual-shot-protect-against-hiv/ 2 - Video game detects Alzheimer’s https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/03/can-a-video-game-detect-alzheimers-early-scientists-think-so/ 1 - Who won Happiness? https://worldhappiness.report/ Regrets of the Dying: https://bronnieware.com/blog/regrets-of-the-dying/ Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode Nile covers the relentless expansion of renewable energy across the globe, Cambodia entering the final stages of clearing an entire nation of landmines and unexploded ordinance, Zimbabwe's big wins for child health, a big step forward in artificial hearts, some nerd in Austin possibly having solved one of the biggest possible crisis in the history of our planet on his off hours and more! Cambodia almost land-mine free https://construction-property.com/cambodia-marks-significant-milestones-in-landmine-clearance-efforts/ Arizona defeats 15-week abortion ban https://azmirror.com/2025/03/05/arizonas-15-week-abortion-ban-is-now-permanently-and-forever-struck-down/ Australian survives 100 days with artificial heart https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/03/australian-man-survives-100-days-with-artificial-heart-in-groundbreaking-success/ 2025 to be a banner year for US renewables https://e360.yale.edu/digest/u-s-solar-batteries-coal-2024 China leading the way in rewewables https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-renewable-energy Did some nerds solve water security???? https://cockrell.utexas.edu/news/archive/10158-from-scraps-to-sips-everyday-biomass-produces-drinking-water-from-thin-air Zimbabwe makes huge progress in child mortality https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/routine-immunisation-credited-drop-infant-deaths-zimbabwe The New Internet? https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-google-taara-chip-internet-by-light/ Sub-Saharan access to power on the rise https://globalenergyprize.org/en/2025/02/11/almost-100-million-people-in-africa-have-gained-access-to-electricity-in-recent-years/ Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode: the Brazilian government is collaborating with indigenous people to restore the Amazon, breakthroughs in quantum computing at Oxford, enzyme imaging at Stanford show promise for future technological and medical advancements, UNICEF reports significant improvements in child survival rates, education, and health and more! Restoring the Amazon https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ambiente/2024/12/plano-de-regeneracao-da-amazonia-vai-incluir-concessao-florestal-de-areas-degradadas.shtml? Nerds and quantum computers https://www.wired.com/story/quantum-computing-information-teleportation/? Cleaning the arctic https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/national/more-than-50k-pounds-of-trash-removed-from-the-arctic Nerds and enzymes https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/02/quantitative-comparisons-of-enzymes-in-action-could-reshape-biochemistry? Great news from UNICEF https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/10-ways-investing-childrens-well-being-changed-world The global south and renewables https://rmi.org/the-global-souths-cleantech-revolution-in-five-charts/? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-24/china-is-rewiring-the-global-south-with-clean-power?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0MDU2NTQ3MywiZXhwIjoxNzQxMTcwMjczLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTUzdKUzlUMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyQUU2NkEzRDc2MzA0MkRBQjgwMzI1NDBBOTQ4OTAyOCJ9.OpUcaJxI3jWJye7u4b2cj-MQ8WFZ3lYw3VfoOMCUDiw&ref=fixthenews.com&leadSource=uverify wall The news about news: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/11/strain-media-overload https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode Nile covers wins for trans rights from around the world, breakthroughs in cancer research, the solve for the imminent asteroid heading towards earth, new ways to find water for countries that need it and more! Gender rights triple: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/28/thailand-health-ministry-trans-hrt/? https://theleaflet.in/judicial-accountability/sanitised-toilets-in-courts-a-fundamental-right-and-not-just-a-convenience? https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250126-marriage-no-longer-sexual-servitude-european-court-human-condemns-france-marital-duty-echr? More diseases getting sent to the Shadow Realm: https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/a-historic-milestone!-who-verifies-niger-free-of-onchocerciasis-as-the-first-country-on-the-african-continent? https://www.who.int/news/item/23-01-2025-georgia-certified-malaria-free-by-who? https://www.who.int/news/item/29-01-2025-guinea-eliminates-human-african-trypanosomiasis-as-a-public-health-problem? Renewable energy boom in the US https://www.distilled.earth/p/clean-energys-boom-and-perilous-moment Global air pollution has peaked: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-world-has-probably-passed-peak-air-pollution? Cancer research progress: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fighting-cancer-without-fighting-scientists-switch-tumor-cells-back-to-healthy-ones-at-critical-moment/ Oil company surveys used to find water: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/big-oil-shares-failed-exploration-data-to- Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode Nile covers disease eradication, wage inequality, more climate change good news and a solve for perfectionism. From the episode: Eradicated diseases: https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/12/30/g-s1-39336/disease-eliminate-blindness-leprosy-sleeping-sickness? China reached peak oil: https://www.ft.com/content/341f0aaa-7173-454c-89fd-103287625d38 Wage inequality: https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/wage-inequality-has-declined-two-thirds-countries-worldwide-start-21st Cambodia's Water Win https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501618391/87-of-population-has-access-to-clean-water-92-to-sanitation/?ref=fixthenews.com A better worst case scenario: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/moving-away-from-high-end-emissions Not the End of the World: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/145624737-not-the-end-of-the-world Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode Nile talks about the crazy progress renewable energy has made, another country abolishing the death penalty, advancements in cancer research and more! Thanks for listening! My numbers were wrong, China’s actually at 50%! https://globalalphacapital.cclgroup.com/insight/gacm-china-leading-the-race-towards-full-ev-adoption/ The energy transition report from RMI. Tuck in cause this one is worth the read! https://rmi.org/the-energy-transition-in-2025-what-to-watch-for?ref=fixthenews.com Same sex marriage in Thailand and you’re gonna have to google Lichenstein: https://apnews.com/article/thailand-lgbtq-marriage-equality-law-fbebaf38c8f9def1564fa2d61a1d7eb2 Zimbabwe abolishes the death penalty https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8gqz7n559o Oxford early detection of cancers: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-powered-machine-blood-enable-early.html Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode, a semi-stuffed up Nile talks about podcast charts in the Netherlands, Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons, holiday plans going sideways, colds that overstay their welcome, plagues, sticky YouTube videos, and how our species is, in fact, not garbage. Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode Nile explains the delay between episodes, tries to give himself a nickname and gives the case for why everyone should be a militant optimist. Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode Nile talks about back problems, mid-life crises, physiotherapy the evils of positivity and begins converting you to Militant Optimism which is something that is going to happen so make peace with it. Feel free to rate and review! Or not. Live your truth! Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode Nile talks about how he (possibly) just narrowly avoided getting scammed, books heists and the secret to being lucky. Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode, Nile talks about microphones, the "cheap person tax", podcasting on ADD meds, why AI isn't going to kill us, a book that's an existential chaser and more! Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
Send us a text In this episode Nile talks about the value of external deadlines, how you "can't do comedy anymore", cancellings, sweet, sweet fusion and more! Thanks so much for listening! I have a newsletter now where I give updates and extra good news and you should definitely sign up for it here ! Here’s all of my socials and good stuff like that please give me a follow as well as a link to my other podcast Comedians in Dungeons Getting Dragons a silly existential chaser. Or better yet throw me some sweet sweet cash at my Buy Me a Coffee Page .…
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