- Technology enabled speech from sensing brain functions has increased to 78 words per minute, about halfway to a typical 150 words per minute.
- In Bloomberg’s annual electric vehicle report, 2/3 of the oil savings are from ebikes and their ilk (trucks ~2%, buses ~14%, cars ~ 18%, 2&3 wheelers ~67%).
- To Climate Change add in biosphere integrity, biogeochemical flows, synthetic chemicals, land use, and freshwater as crises that have exceeded their individual planetary boundaries.
- This year’s maximum sea ice extent for Antarctica was about 17 million square kilometers, about 1 million square kilometers below the previous record. The trend seems to be accelerating since 2016.
- In the US, life expectancy for the college educated in 2021 was eight-and-a-half years longer than for the two-thirds of American adults without a bachelor’s degree. That’s more than triple the 1992 gap of about two-and-a-half years.
Pretending Not To Panic 