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Science Is Strategic

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Science Is Strategic

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Science and technology are our best weapons against Covid-19, climate change, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes and more.

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Aug 24, 2023
Cost of sequencing a human genome 🔬 • 2001 - $95 million • 2008 - $342,502 • 2011 - $7,743 • 2023 - $200 with the new Illumina machine Cc: @PeterDiamandis @azeem @erikbryn @rtnarch
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Mar 19, 2023
Smoking causes cancer. Reducing cigarette consumption may be the greatest public health success of modern times.
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Jul 17, 2023
The US 🇺🇸 economy and the EU 🇪🇺 were roughly the same size in 2008. The US is now nearly twice as big 📊
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Using "current prices" to make such interpretation is misleading, since the euro depreciated temporarily during that period. On a PPP basis EU GDP per capita was 67.5% of US GDP per capita in 2010, by 2021 that had actually grown to 69.8%. databank.worldbank.org/reports.aspx?s…
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Jun 1, 2024
Made in China 🇨🇳 is no longer the cheapest option. It’s not even particularly cheap 🏭
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Jun 22, 2023
India’s 🇮🇳 incredible digital connectivity revolution 📈
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Oct 31, 2022
The world is starting to learn how to decouple growth from CO2 emissions
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Feb 4, 2024
There’s been an extraordinary decline in poverty in India 🇮🇳
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Dec 10, 2022
The @IEA’s bombshell new report on renewables has incredibly good news. For example, solar is undergoing a mega boom & may surpass coal by 2027 Below is a 🧵 on genuinely good news on green energy from the IEA & beyond (1/22) Cc: @Noahpinion @JesseJenkins @ramez @dwallacewells
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Jun 23, 2024
US tech supremacy is powered by immigrants 🇺🇸🛂
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Aug 20, 2023
Europe 🇪🇺 significantly lags the US 🇺🇸 and China 🇨🇳 as a tech power. Data-rich 🧵 below on the economic consequences of tech stagnation for Europe’s prosperity and beyond (1/25) Cc: @GerardAraud @Noahpinion @erikbryn @paulg
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Mar 18, 2023
The last decade has been a pivotal one in the AI revolution 🤖 Cc: @ylecun @Scobleizer @erikbryn @amcafee @paulg @DavidSacks
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Jul 12, 2024
China’s 🇨🇳 demographic decline is unprecedented 📉
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Apr 9, 2023
The decline in US cancer deaths is in part one of the great public health stories of modern times @PeterDiamandis
Peter H. Diamandis, MD
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Apr 8, 2023
Since 1991, cancer deaths have decreased by 33%—amounting to nearly 4 million cancer deaths averted. But the news won't tell you that ;)
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The news does indeed tell you that. A selection of the reporting on this particular statistic from many major news outlets in the last few months: - cnn.com/2023/01/12/hea… - pbs.org/newshour/show/… - abcnews.go.com/Health/cancer-… - washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/… - cbsnews.com/newyork/news/c… - wsj.com/articles/u-s-c… - usatoday.com/story/news/hea… - theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j… - usnews.com/news/health-ne… - thehill.com/policy/healthc… - fortune.com/well/2023/01/3… - newsnationnow.com/health/cancer-… finance.yahoo.com/news/cancer-de… - nypost.com/2023/01/12/1-9…
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Jun 17, 2023
The Canadian 🇨🇦 wildfires are smashing all previous records
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Jun 17, 2023
"The first foreign firefighters to reach Quebec amid Canada’s worst wildfire season on record said that some of the blazes were 100 times bigger than any they had ever seen." nytimes.com/2023/06/17/wor…
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