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“WHEN people wrongly believe that nothing is improving,” Hans Rosling wrote in “Factfulness,” “they may conclude that nothing we have tried so far is working and lose confidence in measures

The average amount of time parents spend with their kids a day is sadly low. In America, the average is between 55 - 125 minutes a day.

The World’s Most Economically Illiterate Statement  Share   Share Trending Back in 2014, I shared two videos, one narrated by Prof. Don Boudreaux and the other narrated by Prof. Deirdre McCloskey, making the point that grinding poverty and material deprivation were the norm for most of human history. It wasn’t until capitalism emerged a few hundred years ago that we made the jump from agricultural poverty to industrial prosperity. I know at least one person who didn’t watch those videos. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley isn’t as well known as other members the “The Squad,” espe...

Denmark will build an giant artificial island to harvest enough electricity from offshore wind turbines to power 10 million European homes.

Solar power got cheap. So why aren’t we using it more? Ula Chrobak © Provided by Popular Science Solar panels have gotten more efficient—and cheaper—without you even realizing. Many of us might assume that the reason so much energy still comes from gas and coal power plants is simple economics: those fuels are cheaper. But though it was once true, that assumption has actually been obliterated by a recent decline in solar and wind costs over the past decade. When it comes to the cost of energy from new power plants, onshore wind and solar are now the cheapest sources�...