- The net worth of the twenty richest dropped from $899B to $827B because of the drop in oil and commodity prices.
- The good news: 242,000 Americans found jobs in February. The bad news: wages are down 0.1%.
- One container of flexible solar panels can deploy 600KW of power.
- A $1B bank hack was stopped at $81M because of a typo.
- December, January, and February combined to set a new record temperature (36.8F) for the contiguous 48 US states.
- The economy grew 3%. Pollution dropped 1.5% in China and 2% in the US.
- Alaska’s temperature was 12F degrees above normal. The global record was set at 1.21C (2.18F).
- Americans give America a general satisfaction of life score of 7.2, above the world average of 6.6.
- Artificial life has been created using 473 genes, a third of have unknown functions.
- The reasonable limit to life expectancy has shifted from 89 years to 97 years, and is increasing.
- A record $286B of renewable energy was added while only $130B of fossil fuel plants were added.
- New style jobs increased from 9.4M to 14.2M while old style jobs decreased 0.4M from February 2005 to November 2015.
Pretending Not To Panic 