Understand the world to act on it

Two paths: understand the issues behind the headlines, or check the technologies that claim to fix them.

Understand a problem

Modern issues

Thirteen subjects that shape daily life, from loneliness to climate, explained simply, each ending with something you can actually do.

Seven on the environment, six on society.

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Check a solution

NewTech

Sixteen technologies that promise to change the game, judged on the record: what they cost, what they do, and what they cannot do yet.

Two of the sixteen are usable today.

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Worth reading now

Three pieces picked across the blog, the issues and the technologies.

Blog Nobody becomes homeless overnight The UN describes homelessness as a slide in thirteen stages, not as a state. And it admits… NewTech Mainstream Solar photovoltaics The green technology whose price collapsed fastest. What was once a luxury is now, in many… Modern issues Received idea Financial hardship "People who are short on money are bad at managing it."

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