by Warp Institute | Aug 5, 2022 | Investing, 🌟 Premium Content
Every week we send out a free newsletter with fact-based optimistic news on technology, science and human progress. Sign up!“Wow, do you think this is the Jim O'Shaughnessy?”, my Warp News colleague Eric Porper wrote to me on Slack. “He just...
by Warp Institute | Aug 4, 2022 | ♻️ Green Tech, 💡 Innovation
A couple in Oregon have created a pair of baby shoes that dissolve in boiling water. They are made from a kind of water-soluble plastic that for example covers detergent pods and pill coatings. The shoes are designed to last through two babies in order to keep its...
by Warp Institute | Aug 4, 2022 | ❤️ Health Tech
People with Down syndrome have three copies of one chromosome, chromosome 21, instead of two. Chromosome 21 contains a gene that codes for a protein, APP, that forms amyloid. As amyloid increases the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease, as many as 80 percent of...
by Warp Institute | Aug 3, 2022 | 📈 Human Progress
Jane Goodall, a famous conservationist and British primatologist is being celebrated with a Barbie doll made out of recycled plastic. The dolls creators Mattel wants to create a doll that inspires young girls. "When I heard that a Jane Barbie doll...
by Warp Institute | Aug 3, 2022 | Drones, 💡 Optimist's Edge
Flying cars are one of the science fiction classics but also a symbol of how the future has proved to be very different from the imagination. So much so that the question "Where's my flying car?" has become emblematic of the wider failure of many modern...
