🦌The unlikely comeback of the milu.

"...we—the artists and institutions—forget that artmaking goes hand in hand with making community," writes Jesus A. Reyes for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social. "It is our responsibility to do more than just set out the welcome mat." www.zocalopublicsquare.org/making-plays...

"On his 70th birthday, in 1905, Mark Twain gave a speech about the secret to successful aging," writes TPN member Arthur Brooks. "...'I have achieved my 70 years in the usual way...by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else.'"

🇧🇷👏The Daily Dose via @who.int 👏🇧🇷 Brazil is the 19th country to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV. They are the most populous country in the Americas to achieve this milestone.

🤔What words come to mind when you think about 2025? 🌪️Chaotic? Disruptive? Violent? 🥰Well, by the time you get through this list of our 50 favorite progress stories of the past year, you might feel like adding uplifting, inspiring, and encouraging. theprogressnetwork.org/good-news-wo...

To anyone who wants good news in a horrible year.

I try to keep things positive, so: good news items of 2025. I like the 3D-printed train station. #climate #climatechange #renewableenergy #climatecrisis #science #medicine #vaccines #tech #3dprinting #ecology #cancer #development #ocean #gis #research #disease #tropicaldisease #sustainability #pv

🤔How do speech, hearing, and language affect our health? 👂To better understand the tools we have to support communication throughout our lives, Mel Moore spoke to Victoria Clark, a speech language pathologist and professor at the @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social.

A lot of good things I guess

🌪️If you’re feeling like 2025 was nothing but chaos, this is a useful corrective. 🥰Here is our yearly round up of 50 underreported stories of progress and good news! theprogressnetwork.org/good-news-wo...

😓📉The Daily Dose via @who.int 😓📉 In 2000, 34% of people globally were facing financial hardship due to health payments. As of 2022, that number has dropped to 26%.

🧐How do we make the most out of a short doctor’s appointment? 🎙️Managing editor of ASU Media Enterprise, @miaaarmstrong.bsky.social , spoke with @jsirven.bsky.social, a professor at @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social, about how to get the most out of the limited time we have with health care providers

🔬Researchers at Oxford University are currently testing a vaccine to combat an extremely lethal and rare virus, that inspired the movie, Contagion. 😮At the moment there are no vaccines or treatments for the Nipah virus, which can have a fatality rate as high as 75%.

🇸🇮📉The Daily Dose via @statnews.com 🇸🇮📉 The probability of a Slovenian woman dying from a chronic disease before turning 80 has declined from 36% in 2001 to 24% in 2019, and the likelihood of a Slovenian man dying from a chronic disease dropped from 60% to 42% over the same period.

🥳Brazil is no longer on the UN Hunger Map!

"The result in Indiana should highlight that the United States remains a complicated and vibrant democratic system, which means it is contested, often virulent, and never complacent," writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell. edgyoptimist.substack.com/p/indy-pende...

🇫🇷Paris now has cable cars! 🚡The gondolas will cut travel times and connect isolated neighborhoods and the metro network.

🇻🇳📉The Daily Dose via Nhan Dan📉🇻🇳 In 2021, Vietnam's multidimensional poverty rate was 4.4 percent. As of 2025, it has fallen to 1.3 percent.

🇬🇧For the first time in decades, England has given their renter protections a makeover.

🤔How can we better support people as they age? ✏️"Really understand and work with their loved one and plan ahead," advises David Coon, a professor and associate dean at the ASU Edson College of Nursing & Health Innovation & the director of the ASU Center for Innovation in Healthy & Resilient Aging.

👏 @fda.gov has approved new antibiotics to fight gonorrhea. 🧐Why does that matter? 😬The bacteria responsible for the infection has developed resistance to many of the medications widely used to treat it. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/12/h...

🇨🇱📵The Daily Dose via @apnews.com 🇨🇱📵 Chile has passed a bill outlawing the use of mobile phones during classes at elementary and middle schools, which means now 40% of the world's countries have a ban on smartphone use in schools.

🌳Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala have announced Latin America's second-largest nature reserve.

😮The FDA has approved the first gene therapy for a rare and life-threatening immune disorder called Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS). 🧬The therapy takes the patient's own blood stem cells and genetically modifies them to include functional copies of the WAS gene. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

😎3 Things That Went Right This Week😎 🇵🇱The world’s second-largest fur producer, Poland, will phase out fur farms. 🦷Mercury will be phased out of dental fillings worldwide by 2034. 🇨🇱Chile is the latest country to ban smartphone use during class. theprogressnetwork.org/good-news-un...

🦁📈The Daily Dose via Phys 🦁📈 Since 2020, the number of wild Asiatic lions has grown by 42%.

🥳Congrats, North Dakota!

"Social-science experiments show that when people strive to meet long-term goals, their willpower increases," writes TPN member Arthur Brooks. "In addition, people with greater willpower to get happier do, indeed, become happier." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

😬2025 has been rough going for America. 🧐But did anything good happen at all? 🥰Thankfully, yes. theprogressnetwork.org/good-news-un...

📉🌏The Daily Dose via @who.int 📉🌏 Since 2000, 14 million malaria deaths have been averted globally, and 47 countries and one territory have officially certified as malaria-free by the WHO.

🏊‍♀️Would you take the plunge?

"Misunderstanding and hubris have broken public trust in governments’ use of science, but it can be restored," writes TPN member @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social with @michaelkenny.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🇦🇺As of today, Australia has enacted the world’s first ban on social media for kids under 16. 😮And they're not alone. 🇲🇾Malaysia will do the same in 2026. apnews.com/article/mala...

💸💊The Daily Dose via @apnews.com 💸💊 Thanks to a 2022 law, both the Biden and Trump administrations have managed to renegotiate the Medicare prices of 25 drugs.

😯It turns out cable cars offer more than just great views.

"...the future ought to involve dramatically more electricity, which is going to mean dramatically more supportive infrastructure," writes TPN member @mattyglesias.bsky.social. "A vision for utilities that doesn’t support that isn’t going to work." www.slowboring.com/p/a-bolder-v...

😮A new treatment has reversed an incurable blood cancer in some patients. 🥹"I really did think that I was going to die and I wouldn't be able to grow up and do all the things that every child deserves to be able to do," says 16-year-old Alyssa Tapley from Leicester.

💉🌍The Daily Dose via @who.int 💉🌍 Since 2000, nearly 59 million lives have been saved by measles vaccines, according to a new report from the World Health Organization.

🐳Numbers of Southern right whales have quadrupled since 1999!

"'When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting,' wrote Winston Churchill in 1922."

🇵🇱Poland is saying "do widzenia" to fur farms! 👏The world's second largest fur producer has decided to phase out the practice over the next eight years. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

🇧🇩📉The Daily Dose via the World Bank 🇧🇩📉 Between 2010 and 2022, Bangladesh has lifted 34 million people out of poverty, while improving living standards and access to essential services like electricity, education, and sanitation.

🧐Times have definitely changed.

"In a country of nearly 340 million people, the regional and class and education variations in who has benefitted and who has not remain immense, with the result that any one narrative of 'the economy' is largely wrong," writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell. edgyoptimist.substack.com/p/the-afford...

🤠3 Things That Went Right This Week🤠 🤏The 2025 ozone hole is the fifth-smallest since 1992 🦠Cabo Verde, Mauritius, and Seychelles have eliminated measles and rubella 🧬Seven people have now been cured of HIV—the latest somewhat by accident 👇Need more? Read on! theprogressnetwork.org/consent-base...

💰📉The Daily Dose via @unicef.org 💰📉 Gavi and @unicef.org have announced a new pricing deal to lower the cost of malaria vaccines by 2030. This new deal is expected to help secure 30 million additional doses, protecting up to 7 million more children.

Big news: Poland, the world's second biggest fur producer, banned fur farming this week. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

👏Slowly consent-based laws are replacing coercion-based laws (🍇charge necessitates violence or threat) across Europe.

😮Seven people have now been cured of HIV—the latest somewhat by accident. 🧬A stem-cell treatment for blood cancer has unexpectedly left a patient HIV-free. 🤔Scientists don’t know why. www.newscientist.com/article/2506...

👏This week in the What Could Go Right? newsletter we're talking about the new consensus around consent that has quietly developed in Europe. theprogressnetwork.org/consent-base...