The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better(ourworldindata.org)

363 points by colonCapitalDee 2 years ago | 265 comments

Max Roser essay on Our World in Data arguing the world is simultaneously awful, much better than before, and capable of becoming much better.

Where does air pollution come from?(ourworldindata.org)

207 points by kamaraju 1 year ago | 113 comments

Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades?(ourworldindata.org)

61 points by sien 1 year ago | 55 comments

China reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by more than two-thirds in past 15 years(ourworldindata.org)

58 points by therabbithole 1 year ago | 36 comments

How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads(ourworldindata.org)

116 points by sien 1 year ago | 203 comments

HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer(ourworldindata.org)

360 points by ZeroGravitas 2 years ago | 163 comments

Our World in Data article by Saloni Dattani and Veronika Samborska on how HPV vaccination and screening could eliminate cervical cancer worldwide.

Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources(19thnews.org)

445 points by benwerd 3 months ago | 175 comments

Blog post by Ben Werdmuller linking to The 19th's story about former NOAA staff rebuilding the defunct Climate.gov resource as Climate.us using open data.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting(deepmind.google)

571 points by bretthoerner 2 years ago | 186 comments

Google DeepMind research blog post from November 2023 introducing GraphCast, an AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting.

The concurrence of three climatic events(climatecasino.net)

360 points by xemoka 3 years ago | 192 comments

A blog post on Eliot Jacobson's climate blog giving an overview of concurrent climate anomalies in 2023, including record global temperature departures.

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon(wilsoniumite.com)

466 points by Wilsoniumite 8 months ago | 597 comments

A personal blog post revisiting the author's failed prediction of a 2025 US economic crash and arguing a crash may still be coming, using data such as FRED unemployment charts.

What to Know About JavaScript in 2026(blog.master.dev)

17 points by eustoria 1 month ago | 2 comments

A blog post outlining what developers should know about the JavaScript language and ecosystem in 2026.