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- Desalinating Water Is Becoming "Absurdly Cheap" https://humanprogress.org/desalinating-water-is-becoming-absurdly-cheap/ 52 comments
- Dismantling Free Markets Won't Solve Biodiversity Threat https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1911 17 comments
- Time Pricing Mark Perry's Latest “Chart of the Century” - Human Progress https://humanprogress.org/time-pricing-and-mark-perrys-chart-of-the-century/ 2 comments economics
- What Cosmetic Surgery Innovation Can Teach Us About Healthcare Costs https://humanprogress.org/what-cosmetic-surgery-innovation-can-teach-us-about-healthcare-costs/ 9 comments economics
- Cost of water desalination cut by 45% in ten years https://humanprogress.org/desalinating-water-is-becoming-absurdly-cheap/ 219 comments futurology
- Ridley: Rejoice, the Earth Is Becoming Greener. So here’s the answer: We need more CO2 https://www.humanprogress.org/ridley-rejoice-the-earth-is-becoming-greener/ 2 comments environment
- Knowledge Grows When We Consume It — "We can't create more atoms, but we can create infinitely more knowledge that makes atoms valuable." https://www.humanprogress.org/knowledge-grows-when-we-consume-it/ 14 comments economics
- Market Has Achieved What Marx Wanted - Less Labor - HumanProgress https://www.humanprogress.org/free-enterprise-has-achieved-what-karl-marx-always-wanted/ 14 comments economics
- The new African free trade area will eliminate 97% of tariffs within 13 years. https://www.humanprogress.org/africa-tries-free-trade/ 110 comments worldnews
- GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save Countless Children https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=2281 8 comments europe
- The EU's Absurd Risk Aversion Stifles New Ideas https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=2288 26 comments europe
- Rural Life in the past Was a Battle for Survival | People in pre-industrial Europe generally lived a miserable, hand-to-mouth existence which would be foolish to romanticize. https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1779 18 comments europe
- Inequality Is Falling Across the United States - “The share of black men in poverty in the United States fell from 41% in 1960 to 18% today, and their share in the middle class rose from 38% to 57% in the same time” https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=345 5 comments economy
- No, we are not running out of forests. Once nations hit around $4,500 GDP per capita, forest areas begin to increase. https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1295 3 comments economy
- The Secret Lives of North Korean Children https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=469&fbclid=iwar37o-mfcyhqa_8t_inggcm2drzrxpmywqotm5tvid3srhjojbupjw3fnds 3 comments worldnews
- Globalization's Great Triumph: The Death of Extreme Poverty thanks to Free-er Markets https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1528 37 comments worldnews
- The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=770 40 comments worldnews
- Deforestation has stopped in wealthy countries. Europe’s forest area grew by more than 0.3% annually from 1990 to 2015. In the United States it is growing by 0.1% annually. https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=420 54 comments science
- A BS blog piece but with some interesting data: "23 percent of Americans between ages 21 and 29 believe that Stalin was a “hero.” Also, 32 percent of millennials hold a favorable view of Karl Marx, slightly down from 34 percent last year" http://humanprogress.org/blog/what-millennials-should-know-about-the-soviet-union 13 comments russia
- U.S. Cost of Living and Wage Stagnation, 1979-2015 http://humanprogress.org/blog/us-cost-of-living-and-wage-stagnation-1979-2015 5 comments economy
- Life Under Communism Was No Liberation For Women http://humanprogress.org/blog/life-under-communism-was-no-liberation-for-women 13 comments europe
- Support for Wealth Redistribution Shaped by Compassion, Self-Interest, Envy http://humanprogress.org/blog/support-for-redistribution-shaped-by-compassion-self-interest--envy 12 comments science
- $1,500 sandwich illustrates how international trade raises living standards http://humanprogress.org/blog/1500-dollar-sandwich-illustrates-exchange-raises-living-standards 4 comments business