The Progress Link Dump: Christmas and New Year’s Edition 🎉
The Christmas and New Year’s holiday season is that one time of year when stories of progress and optimism abound. Here’s “The Progress Link dump: Christmas and New Year’s Edition.” *I’ll be updating this compilation through January 6th, 2023.
33 good news stories you (probably) didn’t hear about in 2022, Angus Hervey and Amy Rose of Future Crunch for The Times.
“This year may have felt like a permacrisis you couldn’t stop doomscrolling through, but take heart: there is strong evidence the world is getting better” — 33 good news stories you (probably) didn’t hear about in 2022
The Bright Side of 2022, Zachary Karabell
“Despite a pervasive gloom about the present and future, far more went right in the past year than most of us recognize” — The Bright Side of 2022, Zachary Karabell
The Year in Cheer, 183 ways the world got better in 2022, Reasons to be Cheerful, December 30th, 2022
We come to the “annual year-end roundup of the brightest, boldest ways the world improved, evolved or otherwise changed for the better.” From the team at “Reasons to be Cheerful” — 183 ways, the world got better in 2022.
Our Editor’s End of the Year Message: A Year of Oft-Interrupted Progress, Marian L. Typy, Human Progress, December 30th, 2022
Progress has continued in 2022, thanks to the efforts of productive innovators but with some destruction of wealth, health, and freedom across the globe.
22 Problems Solved in 2022 from Sam Demby of Wendover Productions, December 30th, 2022
From a recovering Ozone layer to wildlife recovering in Europe, and from breakthrough progress toward a malaria vaccine to progress toward a Lyme Disease vaccine — here are; “22 Problems Solved in 2022”
Why 2022 was a very good year, Jonathan Alter, December 29th, 2022, Op-ed for The Washington Post
There is a Case for Optimism in 2023, Tom Nichols, for The Atlantic, December 28th, 2022
“Before we head off into 2023, let’s think about why the past year wasn’t as bad as we might think, and why the coming year might even be better.” — There is a Case for Optimism in 2023
10 Ways the World Got Better In 2022 — Tony Morley for TIME Magazine, December 29th, 2022
While 2022 felt as though there was little shortage of what went wrong, there were also stories of progress and reasons for hope. Here are “10 Ways the World Got Better In 2022”
9 breakthroughs this year that gave us hope for the future — Izzie Ramirez, Rachel DuRose, Oshan Jarow, and Julieta Cardenas for Vox, Dec 25, 2022
From overcoming the worst of Mpox, to progress in asteroid detection and targeting, and from vaccine development in the fight against covid-19 and malaria to a shrinking hole in the Earth’s ozone layer; these stories help shed light on stories of progress for 2022.
Read New Scientist’s 5 best long reads of 2022 for free Daniel Cossins and Catherine de Lange for New Scientist, December 25th, 2022
To celebrate the end of the year, our editors have picked New Scientist’s very best features of 2022. And as a gift from us to you, they are all free to read until 1 January
Reasons for Optimism in 2023, The New York Times — By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Stephen Gandel, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, and Ephrat Livni, December 25th, 2022
“Even in a world facing many challenges, there are reasons to be hopeful about next year and beyond.”
2022 gave us many reasons to be encouraged about our future — Jim Pethokoukis, Faster, Please!, December 24th, 2022
“But how can anyone be pessimistic about growth when you look at the various year-end lists of the biggest scientific discoveries and technological advancements of 2022?”
The 10 biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2022 — Harold Maass for The Week, December 22nd, 2022
From new vaccines to fight malaria to new advancements in cancer treatments, and from a universal flu vaccine to the James Webb Space Telescope — here are “the 10 biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2022
What went right in 2022: the top 25 good news stories of the year, Positive News, Gavin Haines, December 20th, 2022
What went right in 2022: the top 25 good news stories of the year
22 good things that happened in 2022, The Washington Post, Editorial Board, December 19th, 2022
2022 Was Filled with Progress and Optimistic News — Mathias Sudin for Warp News, December 19th, 2022
“Don’t be fooled by all the misery in the regular news feed. 2022 was filled with positive events. Animals making a comeback, AI breakthroughs, plastic being cleared from the oceans, smarter children, and many climate entrepreneurs.”
The 10 biggest science stories of 2022 – chosen by scientists — The Observer Science, The Guardian, December 19th, 2022
“From moon missions to fast-charging batteries and AI-sourced antibiotics, in no particular order, the year’s significant scientific developments.”
Ten Reasons 2022 Was a Good Year After All — Harry Phibbs, for CAPX, December 16th, 2022
From “a growing population — and falling poverty,” to cancer breakthroughs and, gene-edited plants. Here are “Ten reasons 2022 was a good year after all”
99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2022 — Future Crunch & The Progress Network, December 16th, 2022
“It’s here! Our annual list of good news, chosen from a monster collection of around 850 stories from the last 12 months” — 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2022
2022, Breakthrough of the Year, and Some Amazing Runner-Ups — Science Magazine, Vol 378, Issue 6625, December 15th, 2022
A new telescope that will see closer to the beginning of time, a perennial rice that could dramatically reduce the labor of women and children, an RSV vaccine is nearly here, and more — 2022 Breakthrough of the Year
Thanks. Great links, including great to find Mathias Sudin.