A lot of transition analysis gives too much credit to technologies that can be made to work and not enough scrutiny to whether they matter. The difference shows up across carbon capture hubs, synthetic fuel claims, small modular reactor schedules, cement decarbonization pathways, aviation fuel projections, ammonia shipping forecasts, grid ... [continued]
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s a particular kind of law that changes nothing overnight. The classrooms look the same the morning after it passes. The teachers haven’t changed. The children getting on buses are the same children who got on buses yesterday. But something has shifted underneath: what was once a promise has […]
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Kate Conroy, a philosopher who has held various positions in academia, government, and industry, has been chosen to lead the recently established Australian AI Safety Institute, part of the Australian government’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources. According to the Australian Broadcasting Coroporation, the aim of the Institute is to “monitor, test and share information on emerging AI…
The right of disabled people to live in our own communities is being taken apart. Not in one place, and not by one ruling. On both sides of the Atlantic — through courts, through budgets, through quiet rule changes that never make the news — the systems that let disabled people stay in our homes are being pulled down at the same time. This is not a series of accidents. It is a direction.
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Two types of Atmosphere toolkit are needed if ATScience is to help scientists do science and better communicate it to other audiences: one serving the researchers and their teams, the other focused on aggregation and synthesis.
Rebecca Niemiec and John Le Coq are well-known conservationists. Peter Maguire, a veterinarian from Grand Junction, is known as a passionate hunter and angler.
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For years, the conversation about children and screens has been aimed squarely at children. How much time, what content, and at what age? Sweden’s public health agency has now turned the question around. This past Monday, the agency issued new guidelines urging parents to put their phones away when […]
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, a phone call home from prison could cost a family several dollars a minute. That wasn’t an oversight. It was the business model. A growing number of state prison systems and county jails have moved to make calls free, arguing that regular contact with family is one […]
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The gubernatorial candidate answered student questions at a Wednesday town hall.
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The Council met Thursday to consider the state of modern education.
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Since May 1, Amsterdam’s billboards and tram shelters no longer carry ads for burgers, petrol cars, or cheap flights. The Dutch capital is now the first in the world to ban public advertising for both meat and fossil fuel products. Where chicken nuggets and SUVs once competed for wall […]
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Is silence deafening? Free Speech Hour has been in effect for several months, but that might not be so bad.
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In mid-May, around two weeks before the Texas Republicans’ Senate primary runoff election, state Attorney General Ken Paxton dropped yet another ad smearing his opponent, incumbent John Cornyn, for having “turned his back on President Trump.” Accompanied by a cinematic score, replete with intense, brassy blasts (BRAAAM!), the ad spliced together Cornyn admitting “the idea of a [border] wall is…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM New babies go through eight to ten diapers a day, and diapers run about $100 a month. For families already stretched, that bill arrives before they’ve slept. Some parents leave diapers on too long or reuse disposables, which leads to rashes and infections. This particular problem often starts the […]
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Hoover research fellow Dinsha Mistree argues that the University is responsible for the lack of opportunity to engage with contemporary Indian politics.
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Two years ago, Molly Kelley found out that a close family friend had used a nudification website to make nonconsensual deepfake images of her and dozens of other women. About 80 women in Minnesota were affected by the same person. When she tried to figure out what legal recourse […]
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Knight-Hennessey scholar Kelsey Freeman is working to involve Native tribes in state policy.
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Dhananjay Balakrishnan argues that SIPEC's lineup for the upcoming Stanford India Conference needs better representation.
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How technology enablement facilitates burdens
Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers.
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For a number of years, users submitting bugs reports against GNOME packages in Fedora have received an auto-reply saying that the reports were not actively monitored; users were encouraged to file bugs with GNOME upstream instead. However, that practice seems to be in conflict with the Fedora Engineering Steering
Committee (FESCo) policy that package maintainers ""deal with reported bugs in a…
Stanford Political Union hosted four panelists to debate U.S. immigration and border enforcement policies.
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Nothing Is Ever Going Back To Normal by Anya Kamenetz “By ‘normal-feeling’ I mean not utopia, but these two specific beliefs: “There are adults in charge of the most powerful country in the world and they are mostly doing their best “The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice*. Bad things are naturally going to […]
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The Bahamas became the 12th country or territory in the Americas to receive WHO certification for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV, joining a regional cohort that now accounts for more than half of all such certifications worldwide. The certification, announced April 22 by the World Health Organization, is awarded […]
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Sometimes, the hardest part about getting stuff done is simply remembering what you have to do — and when.
And ironically, lots of the tools that exist to help us juggle our endless array of incoming tasks only seem to make it even _more_ overwhelming. Truly, it doesn’t take much for the very act of managing your tasks — or maybe even just figuring out the best _way_ to do it — to become a chore…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In most countries, the legal age to buy cigarettes is fixed. In the UK, it will now move every year. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill cleared Parliament last week, creating what officials are calling a smoke-free generation by making it permanently illegal to sell tobacco to anyone born after […]
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Evie Magazine Averages an Anti-Birth Control Article Every Month by Emily Amick – Mar. 2026 “But Evie is not interested in informed consent. They are interested in building a case that the entire framework of hormonal contraception is a conspiracy against women’s bodies. The scare tactics exist to create distrust. The relationship pieces exist to […]
In a testy hearing, Warsh criticized the Federal Reserve for “letting inflation take hold” and pledged reform.
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