🇲🇽Mexico has banned dolphin shows!

"Many of our greatest scientists, musicians and mathematicians have high levels of autistic traits or actually meet criteria for autism; if we want to benefit from more of their insights or just be better people, we need to target autism-associated disabilities, not autism.

😬Wildfires are becoming more common, more intense, and longer lasting.

🇲🇦Last week, Morocco became the 60th country to ratify the High Seas Treaty! ⚖️This means that the treaty will come into force in 120 days. 🦭The measure will help achieve the global goal of protecting 30% of the world's oceans by 2030. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🌏📉The Daily Dose via The World Bank 🌏📉 Since 2014, the number of children living in extreme poverty has fallen by 95 million. This is despite a temporary setback in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Fur? That’s so cheugy.” - Switzerland

The world, at present, is giving social scientists many careers-worth of natural experiments. (Yes, I am catching up with today’s news.)

"With all the shouting, no one seems to be listening right now, but that doesn’t mean no one is. And to that point, all the shouting means that free speech is actually alive and most certainly kicking," writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell.

😮For the first time in 98 years, you can now swim in the Chicago River. 🐟And humans aren't the only ones returning to the water. 🦦Fish, ospreys, bald eagles, and even otters can now be found. www.nytimes.com/card/2025/09...

📉🌎The Daily Dose via @who.int 📉🌎 Leprosy has fallen by 19% worldwide in the past decade, thanks to early case detection and the introduction of a multidrug therapy, which cures the disease, that the WHO has been providing for free since 2000.

🖖We've just gotten one step closer to Star Trek! 🎧Listen to the entire story on What Could Go Right? with hosts TPN founder Zachary Karabell and TPN exec. director Emma Varvaloucas: link.chtbl.com/xgZvxyRU What Could Go Right? is sponsored by BetterHelp.

👀The first eye drops to slow the progression of pediatric myopia may be approved by the FDA this fall.

🤬How can you gracefully handle criticism? 🤔Take notes from 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, says TPN member Arthur Brooks. "'When a man is a prey to his emotions,' he (Spinoza) wrote in Ethics, 'he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune.'"

😎3 Things That Went Right This Week😎 🍼 New Mexico will be the first state to offer free, universal childcare ☀️ Global solar installations surged 64% in the first half of 2025 👕The world’s first commercial plant for polycotton recycling is being built in France theprogressnetwork.org/charlie-kirk...

🇬🇧🚗The Daily Dose via @ourworldindata.org 🇬🇧🚗 There has been a whopping 95% decrease in road deaths per mile driven in the UK since 1950!

🧽Copenhagen is becoming squishier.

"I'm generally skeptical of government bans on anything & in this case would be making an exception for one of the most ubiquitous technologies on the planet,"writes TPN member Isaac Saul @tanglenews.bsky.social "I acknowledge the weakness of these inconsistencies here, but also…we know, don’t we?"

🌍📉The Daily Dose via @nature.com 🌍📉 A new study in the @thelancet.com has found that between 2010 and 2019 the chance of dying from chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, declined in 150 out of the 185 countries they looked at.

What would be like to experience a media system that is the opposite of what we have today—one in which the best of us floats to the top? TPN exec. director Emma Varvaloucas went looking for the kind of response, from our nation’s leaders, that would uplift, unite, and move America forward.

🦎These geckos were re-discovered after being thought extinct for over 5,000 years!

🎂California is celebrating it's 175th birthday this year! 🔮What will the next 175 years look like? 👀On Sept 24th at the ASU California Center, @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social is putting together an event to talk about it. 🎟️RSVP and to read about the speakers👇

🤷‍♂️What is the last bastion of bipartisanship? 🌲"Protecting public lands," says our guest, Josh Jackson. 🎧Listen to his entire conversation with TPN founder Zachary Karabell on this week's episode of What Could Go Right? link.chtbl.com/vPffJC5e What Could Go Right? is sponsored by BetterHelp.

🤔How do we protect America’s wild open spaces while meeting the demands of conservation, recreation, and development?

Brazil has become the 46th country to ban animal testing for cosmetics! "The creatures that inhabit the Earth will no longer be test subjects in our country," said President Lula da Silva. qazinform.com/news/brazil-...

The kids are not alright. "Good," says TPN founder Zachary Karabell. This week, he spoke with Cenk Uygur on @theyoungturks.bsky.social about why dissatisfied young people are actually a good thing. www.youtube.com/live/tZcv6nn...

🪖An ultrasound "helmet" could change how we treat neurological conditions. 🧠Instead of surgery or other invasive procedures, this device can target brain regions 1,000 times smaller than ultrasound can, and could replace existing approaches such as deep brain stimulation.

🌎📉The Daily Dose via @ourworldindata.org 🌎📉 Maternal mortality rates worldwide have fallen by 57% since 1985!

"Getting happier or less unhappy might strike you as equivalent efforts, but they aren’t," writes TPN member Arthur Brooks. "Indeed, neuroscientists have found evidence that certain positive and negative emotions are produced in different regions of the brain."

🧬For the first time ever, researchers report that they have implanted CRISPR-edited pancreas cells into a person with type 1 diabetes. 👀These cells pumped out sugar-regulating insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants.

📈☀️The Daily Dose via @ember-energy.org 📈☀️ In the first six months of 2025, the world added 380 GW of new solar capacity, which is 64% higher than the year before.

😮Meet the newly discovered bumpy snailfish! 🥶Found off the coast of California, this deep-sea fish lives at at a depth of over 10,000 feet. 🫶“It’s pretty adorable,” said Mackenzie Gerringer, a marine biologist at the State University of New York at Geneseo. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...

🧠Brain stimulation technologies are revolutionizing the treatment of depression. 🎙️Managing editor of ASU Media Enterprise, @miaaarmstrong.bsky.social , sat down with the founding dean of ASU's School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering, Dr. Sarah Lisanby, to talk about it.

🥳Starting in November, New Mexico will become the first state in the US to make child care free for everyone. 19thnews.org/2025/09/new-...

🐈🇲🇽The Daily Dose via @theguardian.com 🇲🇽🐈 Mexico's jaguar numbers has grown by 30% since 2010. Conservationists hope that in 15 years species will no longer be at risk of extinction in Mexico.

🧑‍🎤Is there life on Mars? 🚀NASA says, "Maybe." 🪨Unusual rocks with spots have been found on Mars that contain the most tantalizing evidence yet of potential past life on the planet.

🇪🇺🙅The Daily Dose via @carbonbrief.org 🙅🇪🇺 20 EU countries are on target to phase out coal by 2030. (Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Portugal, and Ireland have all completed that goal early.)

"The belief that a more just social and economic order is possible and has yet to manifest can be a source of anger and despair, but it can be a passionate spur to create a better world," writes TPN founder Zachary Karabell. edgyoptimist.substack.com/p/the-virtue...

🥳The first vaccine that combats chlamydia in koalas has been approved in Australia. 🐨The disease is one of the main extinction drivers for the endangered animal.

Global maternal mortality rates have fallen by almost 60% since 1985

🤔What really went wrong with global politics? 🎙️TPN exec. director Emma Varvaloucas spoke with Brink Lindsey, Senior VP at the @niskanencenter.bsky.social & author of "The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth & Increase Inequality" about it. link.chtbl.com/a1qoUIsU

🚫👋The Daily Dose via @who.int 👋🚫 In the mid-1980s, only two countries had laws that prohibited corporal punishment of children. By 2025, that number has grown to 67.

Rare leopards have been spotted!

🥳The world has a new dinosaur! ⛵️Found on the Isle of Wight, it has been given the name Istiorachis macarthurae with the first word meaning "sail spine" and the second word named after Dame Ellen McArthur, who broke the the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2005.

☀️🇭🇺The Daily Dose via @ourworldindata.org 🇭🇺☀️ A decade ago, only 0.2% of Hungary's electricity was generated by solar energy. By 2024, it had risen to 25%, overtaking gas to become the second-largest source of electricity, after nuclear. ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

🐇Brazil has passed a law banning the use of live animals in laboratory tests for cosmetics, perfumes and personal care products. 👏They are the 46th country to do so. qazinform.com/news/brazil-...

"Anxiety is, in Kierkegaard’s words, the 'dizziness of freedom'—the cost of doing the business of being fully alive," writes TPN member Arthur Brooks. "You always have to pay that cost, and it is not supposed to feel good. It’s just supposed to be worth it." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In China, the snub-nosed monkey population has more than tripled since the early 1990s. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🇳🇵💯The Daily Dose via @gavialliance-fr.bsky.social 💯🇳🇵 This year for the first time, all 77 districts of Nepal could declare "full immunization" for children under two.

🌍 Mobile money accounts have been changing lives in Sub-Saharan Africa.

😎3 Things That Went Right This Week😎 🦠For the first time, a woman in Africa may be cured of HIV. 📉 The United States is on track to retire more coal power in 2025 than in 2024. 📵 South Korea has banned phones in classrooms nationwide. theprogressnetwork.org/humans-and-ai/