Progress links and tweets, 2023-02-01

[jasoncrawford]

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The Progress Forum

• Eli Dourado AMA (lots of great questions and detailed answers!)

• When did England start seeing itself as a commercial nation? (Anton Howes)

• The progress movement could use some explicit cause areas

Announcements

• New book on factors affecting medical progress (via @markkhurana)

• ARIA, the ARPA of the UK, now legally exists and has a budget (via @logangraham)

Links

• Medieval peasants likely did not work fewer hours than we do (via @jmhorp)

• “Do-it-yourself crafts only exist when you no longer have to do everything yourself”

• Oklo has submitted a plan for a nuclear fuel recycling facility (via @oklo)

• Our World in Data topic page on Democracy (via @bbherre)

• “The whole saga feels to me like it’s part of a climate politics of sacrifice”

Quotes

• The amazing progress in Asian agriculture in the late 20th century

• A brilliant passage from John McPhee’s The Control of Nature

Retweets

• A lot of public health pronouncements don’t take into account that people enjoy things

• If you want to see a progress studies community on Hive.one, nominate it here

• A 1931 article on the potential for rocket-based passenger travel (@1517fund)