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Economics:

• Generation Z Is Unprecedentedly Rich

Energy & Environment:

• BLM Expedites Geothermal Energy Permitting
• Oil Spills from Tankers Have Fallen by More than 90 Percent since the 1970s
• US Emissions Have Fallen 17 Percent from 2005 Levels

Food & Hunger:

• Genetic Gains Underpinning a Little-Known Strawberry Green Revolution
• Okanagan Company Gets Green Light for GMO Non-browning Apple

Health & Demographics:

• The New, More-Hopeful Face of Alzheimer’s Disease
• ChatGPT 4 Could Be Used to Triage Eye Problems, Say Cambridge Academics
• World Health Organization Approves Updated Cholera Vaccine to Combat Surge in Cases

Science & Technology:

• UW–Madison Researchers Develop Better Way to Make Painkiller from Trees
• Two-Inch Diamond Wafers Could Store a Billion Blu-Ray’s Worth of Data
• AI-Powered ‘Digital Twin’ of Earth Could Make Weather Predictions at Super Speeds
• Meta’s Llama 3 Language Model Outperforms Competitors in Tests
• Intel Unveils Largest-Ever AI ‘Neuromorphic Computer’ That Mimics the Human Brain
• Dragons, Sea Toads and the Longest Creature Ever Seen Found on Undersea Peaks off South America

Curiosities:

• Listen to World’s First ‘Chat’ between Humans and Whales

Tweets:

• Five things to be optimistic about in America today
• Maternal deaths have halved in the last 35 years
• The long term decline in violence
• Economic development has become cleaner
• Manufacturing plastic with engineered microbes