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🧠 Scientists have overturned the centuries-held belief that the brain is one organ.
🤯It’s two “cleverly packaged together,” new research shows.
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😎3 Things That Went Right This Week😎
🐱 The first new feline species in 100 years has been discovered in Bolivia.
🧬 An experimental immunotherapy has beaten back a three-year-old’s liver cancer for a year.
🏳️🌈 Hungary will scrap a ban on gay adoption.
Need more? Read on!
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🇿🇲📈The Daily Dose via @borgenproject 🇿🇲📈
In 2019, 120,000 students enrolled in higher education in Zambia.
By 2024, that number had almost doubled to 230,000.
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🤔How come?
👩🎓More women applied. The Ministry of General Education created the Zambian Girls 2030 program, which organizes career clubs, career camps and internships.
🤳Online learning has widened the geographical scope of higher education institutions in Zambia.
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In the 1960s, only relatively wealthy countries had infant mortality rates below 50 deaths per 1,000 live births.
By 2024, only very poor countries had infant mortality rates above that level.
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"I'm hoping in 10 years that they're able to make that much harder for young people to bet," says @brendandwyer, professor and the director of research @CSLatVCU.
"But in general, I am optimistic about sports betting."
Listen to his chat with TPN founder @zacharykarabell and @roundrobin42 this week on What Could Go Right?
play.megaphone.fm/l_vxcq_1sv…
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😱Is the end nigh, like so many AI experts say?
👀That's a distraction, argues TPN exec. director @heyemmavarv.
"The odds of an extinction event are anybody’s guess. We’d do better to focus on present AI risks."
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🇺🇿📉The Daily Dose via @uzdailyuz 🇺🇿📉
Uzbekistan’s poverty rate has fallen from 5.8% to 3.9% in the first eight months of 2026.
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🤔How come?
💰The Ministry of Employment and Poverty Reduction says it's because of 55,000 microprojects, helping 164,000 people increase their incomes.
👀What kind of microprojects?
🌲1,800 low-income families received 1,400 hectares of forest fund land on lease to establish nurseries and grow medicinal plants.
🩺351,000 citizens from the social registry received medical treatment.
💸The government gave out 700 billion soums ($59 million) in loans.
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🤔What is the solution for the male loneliness epidemic?
"Social gambling," says @roundrobin42, a fellow @aibm_org.
🎧Catch his conversation with TPN founder @zacharykarabell and Professor @brendandwyer about gambling on this week's episode of What Could Go Right?
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🤔Are the concerns about sports betting overblown or do we need a real plan to address real harm?
🎙️This week TPN founder @zacharykarabell sat down with the director of research @CSLatVCU, Professor @brendandwyer, and @roundrobin42, a fellow @aibm_org to talk about the guardrails the might be needed for legal gambling.
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🇮🇳📈The Daily Dose via @DDIndialive 🇮🇳📈
Between 2015 and 2024, PhD enrollment in India grew by 193%!
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🤔How come?
🙌More people were included. Universities saw more applications from women, people from disadvantaged backgrounds, and people with disabilities.
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"...Einstein has one year. In 1905, he’s 26 years old, and he publishes four literally universe-shaking papers," says TPN member, @DavidBrooks224, to astrophysicist @SheerPriya.
"How the hell does that happen, where one guy in one year, which he never replicates—what’s going on in the process of discovery?"
Catch their conversation @TheAtlantic.
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🤔Does size matter? @UN thinks so.
🎧Catch the full episode: play.megaphone.fm/iyrriekfsz…
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📜Almost 4 million records of enslaved people from 20 former British colonies are now searchable online for the first time.
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🇯🇵👴The Daily Dose via @BBCNews 👴🇯🇵
Japan is now home to 107,677 centenarians, the highest number in the world!
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🤔How come?
🍜Experts put the long lives of the Japanese down to several factors, including a healthy diet and an active lifestyle.
🤔Is there a gender divide?
👵Yep, 88% are women.
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