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Three stories on the good stuff happening in the deep end. Enjoy.
NASA is back, baby
From Ars Technica:
NASA on Monday staged the kind of celebratory event it has wanted to hold for five decades—the naming of a new crew to fly to the Moon. The Artemis II mission will fly four astronauts around the Moon during an approximately week-long flight. This will be the first time that humans have left low-Earth orbit since December 1972, at the conclusion of the Apollo 17 mission.
More stuff ≠ more carbon
Max Roser is the Oxford economist that brought us Our World in Data, one of the most useful corners of the internet. This week he shares data on countries that have found a way to decouple economic growth from carbon emissions.
For centuries, the common wisdom was that more stuff leads to more CO2, but that’s no longer the case for the UK, the US, and many other industrial heavyweights. The research reminds me of Andrew McAfeee’s 2019 book More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next
The Silicon Valley x DoD collab you didn’t know you needed
Doug Beck, an Apple VP that has been leading the company’s worldwide education, health, and government business, will now oversee the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a DoD agency based in Silicon Valley. DIU is tasked with tapping technologies from the commercial market for military applications. More here.
One more thing…
A moderately interesting video on how to look at satellite imagery.