The Science of Science

Welcome to the week.

I’ve been thinking about your poll responses this week — 37% of you find hope in scientific breakthroughs, and reading through this week’s stories, I get it.

Even when the news feels heavy (looking at you, groundwater crisis), there’s something powerful about humans who see a problem and think “we can fix this” — and then actually do it.

Here we go.

This Week

• Learning and extreme heat

• Disaster aid fails

• Global groundwater

• Automated thinking costs

Have a great week,

— Willow

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🙋‍♀️ Vote!

Last week, we asked: What gives you hope right now?

You said:

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Activism (14%)

“Participation of the people is essential for solving social problems.”

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Rapid clean energy progress (20%)

“I have just returned from a trip to China, the clean energy progress and numbers of EV's is quite amazing. ”

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Community resilience (23%)

“The knowledge that we can no longer sit back and let someone else do it. We have to change government from the bottom up. At 75 I didn’t see myself going to town meetings and arguing against developers but that’s what is happening. Now I’m trying to get my neighbors involved too. When I was younger and working, I let my older neighbors take care of things. Now it’s my turn to carry the torch.”

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Science and technological breakthroughs (37%)

“There's always hope with progression.”

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Something else (write in!) (6%)

“That Trump's anti-planet actions and anti-humanity actions have been so much more horrible than ever before! So much so, that we are now seeing some long-term MAGA supporters burning their red hats, and recanting their support.”

New Shit Giver Richard is here because he is “concerned about AI, climate/science denialism, [and] human rights for all.”

Ditto! Let’s get to work.

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