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After ~20 years of shrinkage, the Antarctic ice sheet expanded by 108 gigatons/year from 2021-2023.

Where you can stumble upon a rain god

The White House has changed a page on its website, replacing a mundane compendium of advice about Covid vaccines, treatment, and testing with a Hollywood-style poster of Donald Trump striding through the giant words “LAB LEAK”.

America outsourced manufacturing for a reason: it isn’t very profitable.

America should embrace its superpower: innovation. Innovation brings abundance, where everyone wins.

I expect to see the existence of extraterrestrial life confirmed within the next few years.

More beneficial to humankind than AI

I'm writing you from a sun-bleached refinery town just outside Los Angeles.

The Rational Optimist Diary is moving…

After 50 years of stagnation, humanity is returning to the Moon…

This is the one job AI can’t replace…

Where will you go when supersonic travel shrinks the world?

“Everything that moves will be robotic”…

This is what Matt Ridley had to say about today’s breakthrough technologies…

The future is happening—fast.

This will be the first of many diaries where we explore how to use this incredible new technology.

What if, instead of watching helplessly as nature wreaks havoc, we could control it?

If I’m right, America’s next chapter will be its best. The next 50 years will look radically different than the last 50.

Here’s how Rational Optimists should prepare for the innovation avalanche…

From AI to rocket launches, we’re entering a new age of tech innovation…