Ada Palmer

Historian (U Chicago), author SF/Fantasy, composer; @[email protected] Renaissance, censorship, manga, disability/chronic pain, gelato

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Re: Hugo eligibility, my essay about how "Inventing the Renaissance" is an SFF-related work. Many asked me if I think it is, & it was fun mulling!
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Another great "Best Related": Henry Lien's brilliant "Spring Summer Asteroid Bird"! https://t.co/zKO3Vmbvjz

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Simple technologies bent outcomes too. In the last decade deaths from air pollution, the thing that kills more people than anything else, have dropped by 21 percent, driven largely by billions of people gaining access to cleaner stoves. https://t.co/8zxAQFMetQ
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Renewables have overtaken coal as the largest source of global electricity, with wind and solar covering all growth in the first half of the year. That’s why Science called renewable energy the breakthrough of the year. https://t.co/8zxAQFMetQ
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The Lancet released a report: since 2010, humanity’s total burden of illness and early death has dropped by 12.6 percent, driven by declining deaths from the world's deadliest infectious diseases: all down by between 25 and 49 percent. https://t.co/8zxAQFMetQ
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In August, the WHO and UNICEF released data showing that over the last decade 961 million people gained access to safe drinking water, 1.2 billion gained safe sanitation, and 1.5 billion gained basic hygiene services. https://t.co/8zxAQFMetQ
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Global hunger is falling for the first time since the pandemic, driven by gains in Asia and the Americas. In 2025 the world produced record harvests of wheat, rice and soybeans, pushing grain prices down 8 percent. https://t.co/8zxAQFMetQ
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Every year, Gallup surveys around 1,000 people each in 142 countries, asking about their lives and expectations. In its most recent edition, 33 percent of respondents said they were thriving, the highest proportion on record. https://t.co/8zxAQFMetQ
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Fix the News published 38 editions of their newsletter this year, "featuring 1,932 stories from 170 countries, and what we found was that while the headlines kept insisting on collapse, the data ... kept showing stubborn progress." https://t.co/8zxAQFMetQ
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The DRC has begun a drive to immunise 62 million children against measles & rubella. Backed by the WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, the Gates Foundation & the US CDC, the campaign will use fixed outposts and mobile units. https://t.co/75HnzWJ37h
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New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that improves performance across dozens of crops. https://t.co/t9W2N8GBg2
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Pan Jianwei, China’s ‘Father of Quantum’ has taken a major step toward building quantum computers that don’t fall apart. His team created a new of ultra-stable quantum state where information gets trapped in the ‘corners’ of a material https://t.co/FCUgZpYKvU
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Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu have detected ribose, completing the suite of molecules needed for RNA and confirming that primitive asteroids can generate complex organics. https://t.co/iKgu17zrgO
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US coal generation has collapsed from about 50% of electricity in 2005 to just 14% today. It’s one of the fastest energy transitions in modern history. Operating a coal plant now costs more than building new wind and solar in every state. https://t.co/xgUzuzU4cd
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(Energy transitions can happen faster than we think): In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark’s electricity was from fossil fuels, but in 2024, that number was a mere 10%. No addition, just transition. Jan Rosenow https://t.co/1EB5TPrQb6
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400 years ago, Jubilee Marsh was walled off from the sea. Mid-2000s, the Royal Society for the Protection Of Birds decided to ‘rewet’ the marsh. The Crossrail project needed a place for dirt. Cue collaboration & a successful bird refuge https://t.co/Y5CF2T5ugM
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In Canada, along British Columbia’s Highway 93 and the Rocky Mountains corridor, new overpasses, fencing and retro-fitted bridges are being built to cut animal collisions on roads.
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Across South Africa, invasive species are being removed, restoring water flow, reviving native vegetation and creating green jobs. One such campaign, “Working for Water” has cleared over a million hectares across the country. https://t.co/c7nwksoggF
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Greece’s brown bears rebound as protections reshape rural landscapes. Brown bear numbers in northern Greece have risen to an estimated 870, roughly four times their 1990s population, after hunting bans and long-term conservation efforts.
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Turtles stage a million-nest comeback on India’s coasts. Two decades after conservationists feared collapse, olive ridley turtle nests in India have jumped from under 100,000 to about one million a season.
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Launched in 2023, London’s free-school-meals programme has officially delivered more than 100 million meals to pupils in state primary schools, saving families an estimated £500 per child per year. https://t.co/32Aeq8bo4k
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