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Culture & Tolerance:

• Greece’s Government Set to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
• Estonia’s Marriage Equality Law Takes Effect

Economics:

• Long-Run Decline in US Poverty Continued in Recent Years despite Pandemic, New Report Shows

Education:

• Transforming the Lives of Women and Girls in Eastern and Southern Africa
• How Machine Learning Is Helping Us Learn to Read

Energy & Environment:

• Global Land Area Growing despite Sea Level Rise
• A Surprising Success Story for Humpback Whales
• Mythical-Looking Scimitar-Horned Oryx Brought Back from Extinction
• After Decades of Conservation Work, the Ulūlu Is No Longer Listed as Critically Endangered
• Iceland Will Tunnel into a Volcano to Tap into Virtually Unlimited Geothermal Power

Health & Demographics:

• A Key to Detecting Brain Disease Earlier than Ever
• Novel Type 2 Oral Polio Vaccine Secures WHO Prequalification
• Exciting New Cancer Drug Kinder than Chemotherapy
• FDA Clears First CRISPR Treatment for a Second Disease, Beta Thalassemia
• Cape Verde Reaches Malaria-Free Milestone
• Experimental Use of Pig Liver to Filter Blood Externally Offers Hope for Patients

Infrastructure & Transportation:

• Zero Jet Aircraft Crashes: 2023 Was One of Aviation’s Safest Years on Record

Science & Technology:

• What If You Never Had to Charge Your Gadgets Again?
• AI Copilots and Robo-Labs Turbocharge Research
• Your iPhone Will Soon Be Able to Replicate Your Voice after 15 Minutes of Training

Tweets:

• Our culture of pessimism
• Catch-up growth thread
• Milei translated by AI
• R&D spending by tech companies
• Black Americans are getting much richer