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NYC bans AI for 500,000 students, and seven other solutions (opens the original)
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An approach to treating degenerative blindness has been in development for more than ten years across research institutions in Spain. The result is not a surgery, a gene therapy, or an implant. It is eye drops. Light-activated compounds that restored vision in blind animal models by stepping in where lost photoreceptors used to be, without disturbing the underlying disease. Arielle and Karissa cover eight solutions this week, including the country's broadest AI ban for over half a million studen
AI music banned from Australia's charts, Roman telescope launches, a biodegradable balloon and much more! (opens the original)
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Arielle and Karissa are reunited after a few weeks apart, covering a wide range of solutions this episode: a new telescope that survived two White House cancellation attempts, the decade-long trial that settles the statin-and-dementia debate once and for all, and a biodegradable balloon that took three years and hundreds of failed experiments to get right. Transcript link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/?p=1422883 If you have questions, comments, feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, sen
Niger restored 5 million hectares without planting a single tree plus nine other things going right (opens the original)
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Karissa hosts solo this week while Arielle recovers, covering ten solutions including the world's first wild bird flu vaccination program for Phillip Island's little penguins, France making unsolicited telemarketing calls flat-out illegal, and what Baltimore is doing with $400 million in opioid settlement money. transcript link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/?p=1422844 If you have questions, comments, feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, send a message to: podcast@optimistdaily.com . W
(Guest Interview) Catch up with Kristy: clean energy, leaving California, and embracing the slow life (opens the original)
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Many of the long-time listeners of The Optimist Daily's podcast will recognize Kristy Jansen's voice. She's the former co-host and Executive Director of this show, and she's back, joining Arielle and Karissa from Mérida, México, to catch them up on what happened in between: the clean energy industry from the inside, and what it's like to start over somewhere new when you didn't really pick the timing. Transcript link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/?p=1422807 If you have questions, comments, feed
Taking our own advice on slowing down this summer (opens the original)
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Arielle checks in solo to explain why the Kristy guest episode is getting a little more time. Both she and Karissa have been doing what they always say matters most: showing up, fully present, for the people they love. Babies, weddings, miles between people who love each other. Sometimes slowing down really is the solution. Transcript link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/?p=1422764 If you have questions, comments, feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, send a message to: podcast@optimistd
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