Archive - The Angry Optimist

🫁 Lung cancer death rate in the US has more than halved since 1990

The share of adults who smoke fell from 22.6 percent in 2001 to 9.9 percent in 2024.

8 hrs ago • The Angry Optimist

👮 Knife injuries among young people in London have halved since 2019

Of young people supported in hospitals, 75 percent were guided away from further harm.

15 hrs ago • The Angry Optimist

🛰️ For the first time, two spacecraft will orbit Mercury

The spacecraft has traveled almost 10 billion kilometers since its launch in 2018.

Nov 13 • The Angry Optimist

🥔 New potato tastes like roast chicken

The flavor comes from the variety itself. It took ten years to breed.

Nov 13 • The Angry Optimist

🇨🇳 China's CO2 emissions fell 3 percent

The drop in the third quarter was the largest since Covid

Nov 12 • The Angry Optimist

🌍 Global fossil CO2 emissions are projected to fall this year

59 countries emitted less in 2025 than in 2019, while their economies grew.

Nov 12 • The Angry Optimist

✨ Firefly rediscovered after 43 years

A species counts as lost when no one has seen it for at least ten years.

Nov 12 • The Angry Optimist

💑 29 percent of married couples in the US earned the same in 2022, up from 11 percent in 1972

Earning the same means that each spouse brings in 40 to 60 percent of the income.

Nov 12 • The Angry Optimist

🌽 Drought-tolerant maize gave up to 38 percent higher yields

A few grams of fertilizer were placed right next to each planting hole.

Nov 11 • The Angry Optimist

💡 The Angry Optimist #343 (formerly Warp News)

Now as a podcast too.

Nov 11 • Mathias Sundin

🩻 AI spots pancreatic cancer on scans that look normal

Today, more than 85 percent of cases are not found until the cancer has spread.

Nov 11 • The Angry Optimist

🧪 Fat cells destroy themselves after new injection

Rats given the injection regained less weight when the weight-loss drug was stopped.

Nov 10 • The Angry Optimist

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