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How Have Tech and Living Standards Changed Over Time?
November 04, 2019
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Robot Can Make 300 Pizzas an Hour
December 20, 2019
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Norberg: What Causes Rising Health and Education Costs?
December 18, 2019
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Machines Can Now Interpret Visuals More Like Humans Do
December 17, 2019
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High-Tech Planes, Supercomputers and Helitankers Help Fight Wildfires
December 17, 2019
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A Christmas Carol and the Politics of "Overpopulation"
December 23, 2019
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Drones and Robots Are Making Their Way to Your Door
December 16, 2019
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Humans Are Genetically Designed to Live Only 38 Years
December 14, 2019
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Stuff of Progress, Pt. 6: Rubber
December 20, 2019
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China Is Curing Cancer Faster and Cheaper than Anyone Else
December 11, 2019
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World's First Fully Electric Commercial Aircraft Takes Flight
December 11, 2019
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Norberg: Are Racial Divides Really Getting Worse?
December 11, 2019
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New X-Ray Tech Allows Scientists to Observe Electron Movement
December 09, 2019
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New Google AI Project "Gamifies" Memory
December 09, 2019
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Could Crispr Be the Next Breakthrough in Antibiotics?
December 06, 2019
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Meet Andrew McAfee, a Human Progress Board Member
December 05, 2019
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Ridley: The EU's Absurd Risk Aversion Stifles New Ideas
December 16, 2019
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How Carnival Sideshows Saved Premature Infants
December 05, 2019
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New Leukemia Treatment Turns T-Cells into Cancer Killers
December 05, 2019
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Tiny Particles Could Help Fight "Hidden Hunger"
December 05, 2019
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Heroes of Progress, Pt. 33: Hitchings and Elion
December 13, 2019
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Norberg: Video Games Do Not Cause Violence
December 05, 2019
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Amazon is Forcing Supermarkets to Innovate
December 04, 2019
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New Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Cures Mouse in 14 Days
December 04, 2019
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New Apple Variety Keeps for 12 Months in Refrigerator
December 04, 2019
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World's First "Fly & Drive" Car To Make Miami Debut
December 03, 2019
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Immunotherapy Offers Hope for Men with Prostate Cancer
December 03, 2019
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AI Algorithms Invent New Tools While Playing Hide-and-Seek
December 03, 2019
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Worldviews Are Pessimistic Because They Are Outdated
December 12, 2019
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Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink
December 03, 2019
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"The Case for Space" Panel at the Cato Institute
December 02, 2019
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Lenovo Pilots VR as an Alternative to General Anesthesia for Kids
December 02, 2019
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GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save Countless Children
December 11, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence Moves into Healthcare
December 02, 2019
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Cancer Immunotherapy Drug "Less Toxic and Prolongs Life"
November 30, 2019
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Energy Breakthrough Achieves 1,000-Degree Heat from Sunlight
November 30, 2019
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Bacteria-Infected Mosquitos Take Bite Out of Dengue Virus
November 28, 2019
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Sony Cooks Up New AI Unit for Food Revolution
November 27, 2019
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New Tech Puts Virtual Sense of Touch at Our Fingertips
November 27, 2019
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Humans Placed in Suspended Animation for the First Time
November 26, 2019
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Stuff of Progress, Pt. 5: Chemical Pesticides
December 08, 2019
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Apple Plans Standalone 3-D Systems for VR, AR for 2022
November 26, 2019
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Neuroscientists Identify Specific Neurons that Map Memories
November 25, 2019
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Ecuador Finding Shows Horror of Childhood in the Past
November 22, 2019
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Heroes of Progress, Pt. 32: Benjamin Rubin
November 30, 2019
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Iris Automation Makes First-of-its-Kind "Blind" Drone Flight
November 22, 2019
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Japan to Reinvent Fukushima as a Renewable Energy Hub
November 21, 2019
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"Amarin" Will Significantly Decrease Cardiovascular Risk: FDA
November 20, 2019
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Air Protein Just Created "Meat" Made from Air
November 19, 2019
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UPS Completes First Residential Prescription Delivery via Drone
November 18, 2019
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Rare Genetic Mutation May Hold Clues to Preventing Alzheimer's
November 15, 2019
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New Energy Breakthrough Could Store Solar Power for Decades
November 15, 2019
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Thanksgiving Dinner Costs Less and Other Good News
November 26, 2019
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Scientists Create "Artificial Leaf" that Converts CO2 to Fuel
November 14, 2019
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Three-Story "Water Battery" Helps University Cut 40% of Energy Use
November 12, 2019
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Freeport Turns to AI to Raise Copper Output by 90,000 Tons
November 11, 2019
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Stuff of Progress, Pt. 4: Silicon
November 22, 2019
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How Airships Could Return to Our Crowded Skies
November 08, 2019
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Next-Generation Protein Could Come from Air, Methane
November 07, 2019
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What Will Mass Data Storage Look Like in the Future?
November 06, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence Can Stop African Elephant Poachers
November 06, 2019
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The Science of Aging, and How to Slow it Down
November 06, 2019
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New Antibody Could Fight Many Influenza Strains at the Source
November 05, 2019
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Scientists Demonstrate Direct Link Between Human Brains
November 05, 2019
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Heroes of Progress, Pt. 31: Willem Kolff
November 15, 2019
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Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove CO2 from Air
November 05, 2019
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Augmented Reality Will Soon Give Surgeons X-Ray Vision
November 05, 2019
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Blood Test Could Detect Breast Cancer Before Clinical Signs
November 04, 2019
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Anti-Capitalism: Trendy but Wrong
November 12, 2019
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Why the Middle Class Is Better Off Than You Think
November 01, 2019
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New Cystic Fibrosis Drug Could Benefit 90 Percent of Patients
October 31, 2019
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What Is the Most Valuable Resource in Space?
October 31, 2019
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Scientists Create Plan to Eradicate Dengue Virus
October 31, 2019
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Chasing Unlimited Energy With the World's Largest Fusion Reactor
October 30, 2019
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Block on GM Rice Leads to Death, Child Blindness
October 30, 2019
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Humanity's First Home Traced to Botswana
October 30, 2019
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Stuff of Progress, Pt. 3: Tungsten
November 08, 2019
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X-37B Space Plane Lands After Record 780 Days in Orbit
October 30, 2019
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Americans Have More Free Time than Is Recognized: Study
October 29, 2019
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UK Scientists Create "Trimbot," a Gardening Robot
October 29, 2019
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Don't Count on a "Tech-Driven" Employment Apocalypse
November 06, 2019
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Marian Tupy's Podcast with Jonah Goldberg
October 28, 2019
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Space: The Final Business Frontier
October 28, 2019
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New Dubai City Pushes for Green Revolution in the Desert
October 28, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Reconstruct Ancient Games
October 25, 2019
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Quantum Leap in Computing as Google Claims Supremacy
October 23, 2019
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Hover-Taxi Whizzes over Singapore, Firm Eyes Asian Push
October 23, 2019
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New CRISPR Tool Has Huge Disease-Correcting Potential
October 23, 2019
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New Study Reveals that U.S. Poverty Has Plunged
November 04, 2019
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Ozone Hole in 2019 Is Smallest on Record
October 22, 2019
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Senator Rand Paul Cites Human Progress on the Daily Show
October 22, 2019
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Insect Brains Inspire Computer Chip Innovation
October 21, 2019
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How Many Lives Are Lost Due to the Precautionary Principle?
November 04, 2019
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Ebola Vaccine Gets Go-Ahead, Could Save Thousands
October 21, 2019
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Google Affiliate Begins Drone Deliveries in Virginia Town
October 21, 2019
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Tupy: Why the World Is Better than You Think
October 21, 2019
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The March of History: Mises vs. Marx
October 17, 2019
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Herpes Vaccine Trials on Animals Are a Success
October 17, 2019
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Trial Vaccine Wipes out Breast Cancer in Florida Patient
October 17, 2019
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Girl with Brain Disease Given Custom-Made Drug
October 14, 2019
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Heroes of Progress, Pt. 30: Sir John Harington
November 01, 2019
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Lyme Disease Vaccine Set to Become Available Soon
October 11, 2019
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First Meat Grown in Space Lab 248 Miles from Earth
October 08, 2019
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Paralyzed Man Walks Again with Brain-Controlled Technology
October 04, 2019
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The Long History of Eco-Pessimism
October 31, 2019
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Rejoice, Cheaper Pizzas Are Coming!
October 02, 2019
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Scientists Create Artificial Blood in Lab
October 01, 2019
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Absurd Advice from 1958 on How to Get a Husband
September 30, 2019
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New Blood Test Could Detect More than 20 Types of Cancer
September 30, 2019
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Boris Johnson Announces Funding for First Nuclear Fusion Plant
September 30, 2019
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Half of People Now Survive Advanced Melanoma Skin Cancer
September 30, 2019
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HIV Cure Is Step Closer as Scientists Discover 'Kill Switch'
September 26, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Jobs - and Create Them
October 30, 2019
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