2022 ends in two days, and the team at Wendover Productions put together a list of 22 problems that have been “solved” during the year. It’s a nice video recap of some of the good things that humanity got up to this past year. Let’s hope 2023 sees even more
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Things Are Good: Existing Water Filters Can Catch Microplastics
Plastic waste is everywhere and the tinier the plastic is the harder it is to deal with. These microplastics are proving to be very difficult to address which has sent researchers looking into all sort of solutions. One solution is already up and running in some places: sand filters in
Continue readingThings Are Good: Space Lawyer Protected Us From Mercury
Exciting personal space law news! In 2018 a whistleblower told me about a new satellite thruster that used mercury, the poisonous liquid metal, as a propellant, and that it would inevitably fall back to earth when used, thus beginning my Space Lawyer arc — Kevin H Bell ???? (@KevinHBell) March
Continue readingThings Are Good: Visualize the Supply Chain of Every USA-Based Company
COVID-19 revealed to many the precariousness of modern “free trade” supply chains, indeed the pandemic supply chain issue is still impacting us to this day. Various international deals that favour profits over people put us in this situation, so how do we get out of it? This is the question
Continue readingThings Are Good: Whales Share Knowledge to Defend Against Whalers
Animals warn each other whenever a predator approaches, and in some cases they help each other. In the case of sperm whales they share defensive measures to avoid being killed by whalers. When whalers first started hunting sperm whales they were very successful; however, their effective harpooning rate soon started
Continue readingThings Are Good: Buying Time Provides More Than Buying Objects
Start 2022 with a new mindset of buying time instead of material objects. Researchers continue to find more evidence that for a fulfilling life one should eschew material gains for temporal gains. In practice this means that, when given the choice between spending your money on a consumer good or
Continue readingThings Are Good: This Breathing Exercise is Better Than Normal Exercise
People suffering from low blood pressure may soon have an easier time exercising to keep their pressure at the proper level thanks to a handheld device. Researchers have found a technique that is more efficient than traditional exercise. Patients can keep their blood level at a safe level by practicing
Continue readingThings Are Good: This Company Makes Products Out of Thin Air by Capturing co2
A materials company in Berlin wants to build the world using carbon taken our of the air – making it the first carbon-negative materials manufacture. Made of Air has sunglasses on the market and provides cladding material for buildings all made from a tried and tested method of capturing air
Continue readingThings Are Good: Attempting Harmless Fashion
The concept of sustinable fashion is more of a goal than something that can be put into practice. One company, Asket, is taking a different spin on making the fashion world better by adding accountability through traceability with the spin off effect of sustainability. Asket educates consumers on the supply
Continue readingThings Are Good: We’ve Improved Urban Life During the Pandemic, Let’s Keep it up!
During the the last century urban planners in North America built cities for cars instead of people. The 21st century is literally paying the costs of their misjudgement. Efforts to make streets for people we gaining popularity over the last couple of decades and the pandemic pushed that further. We’ve
Continue readingThings Are Good: Want to be Successful? Spend Time with Your Friends
Are you worried you aren’t successful? Don’t be! The greatest success one can have is found in their social network, and size doesn’t matter. According to a 75-year long study done by Harvard the path to success is spending time with friends. Take a moment out of your day today
Continue readingThings Are Good: Turning Sewage into Something Useful
Today is World Water Day and what better way to celebrate than by talking about sewage? The Stockholm Environment Institute, an international non-profit research and policy organization, released a report on how we can better handle human waste. When it comes to basic sanitation there is plenty of good news
Continue readingThings Are Good: 5 Ways We Can Improve Cities During the Pandemic
IKEA’s research and design lab in Copenhagen released a book this month on ways we can improve our cities. They start by recognizing we’re presently facing two global crisis: a pandemic and catastrophic climate change. Their proposals to address these two issues within cities is titled The Ideal City and
Continue readingThings Are Good: Happy 20th Birthday to VLC
One of the best open source projects is undoubtedly VLC, that little app with the pylon icon that plays any video file you throw at it. VLC embodies the spirit of a free and open world of computing in which the user can do whatever they want and not have
Continue readingThings Are Good: Good News From Web Summit Lisbon Day 1
Web Summit is a conference run in Lisbon about the future of the planet, technology,and business at large. I’m attending it remotely as best I can. The first day isn’t even done and there are two nifty good things already worth sharing: Ridley Scott launches campaign with The Global Enabling
Continue readingThings Are Good: Lack of Demand for Dead Whales Will End Whaling
Undoubtedly, whaling is bad for whales, nature, and even geopolitical reactions. Demand for whale meat and byproducts has been decreasing due to ongoing pressure from consumers and activists. Countries that permit whaling are frowned upon by other nations for conitrnuig the practice. The good news for whales is that due
Continue readingThings Are Good: Collision: Shaquille O’Neal Wants Your Life to be Steady
“Invest in things that are going to change people’s lives” – @JeffBezos advice to @SHAQ & why he invested in @thesteadyapp #CollisionfromHome #SteadyApp pic.twitter.com/I1yG2RNWtp — Aoileann Ní Chuilleanáin (@Aoils) June 23, 2020 Today at Collision conference Shaquille O’Neal made an appearance to promote Steady, a company that wants to help
Continue readingThings Are Good: New Zealand is COVID-19 Free
After a very well managed shutdown of the country, New Zealand is free of COVID-19 and people are able to live as they did before. The country had a strict, vast, and quick reaction to COVID-19 showing up in the nation and it’s paid off. Starting today New Zealanders are
Continue readingThings Are Good: Denmark Bans Bailouts to Businesses Paying Dividends and Using Tax Shelters
Every decade we need to bailout businesses so capitalism can keep functioning. In the last bailout, caused by American bankers, western countries gave banks corporate welfare cheques that went from the banks to the elite shareholders through dividends. This clearly didn’t work out well for 90% of people as the
Continue readingThings Are Good: After this Pandemic Cities will be More Resilient
Pandemic and other major health issues have hit cities before and they’ll hit cities again in the future. Each time this happens cities find new designs and solutions for the next time it occurs, and this year is no different. Urban planners and politicians are already working on ways to
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