E7: "Vaccines have reduced infant mortality by 40% over the last 50 years,"

Tony Morley, September 18th, 2024 "Vaccines have reduced infant mortality by 40% over the last 50 years," breakthrough nanoplastic filtering, and much more: Welcome to a rather large edition of The Up Wing, with dozens of stories of progress and breakthroughs from the last fortnight. It’s been

The $6,374 Pineapple

Tony Morley, August 13th, 2024 "The expense was extortionate, with the cost of producing a single pineapple matching that of a new coach. Yet the glory that ensued from this taste of Paradise beneath chilly grey skies made it all worth it" — The Pineapple, King of Fruits, Francesca

E6: A titanium, magnetic levitation, artificial heart pump breakthrough, and much more

Tony Morley, August 8th, 2024 Welcome to The Up Wing, Edition 6, the best in progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly-ish. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, progress studies, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science,

E5: Wheat gene bank, AI-designed rocket thruster, the causes of human progress, and more

Tony Morley, July 25th, 2024 Welcome to The Up Wing, Edition 5, the best in progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, progress studies, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science,

E4: Far Side Samples Return

Lunar regolith samples return from the far side of the Moon, 'quantum compass' breakthrough, 'Bridge Editing' could supersede CRISPR, and much more Tony Morley, July 2nd, 2024 Welcome to The Up Wing, Edition 4, the best in progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly.

E3: Wild horses return to Kazakhstan, degrowth is hot garbage, clean energy tech costs fall dramatically, and much more:

Tony Morley, June 18th, 2024 Welcome to The Up Wing, Edition 3, the best in progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, progress studies, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science,

E2: Milestone Starliner launch, SpaceX Starship success, the world's largest space camera install underway, and much more:

Tony Morley, June 11th, 2024 Welcome to The Up Wing, Edition 2, the best in progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, progress studies, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science,

E1: Vaccines save 150 million lives, a Toddler's Hearing Restored Through Gene Therapy, Electric Cement Breakthrough, and More

Tony Morley, June 4th, 2024 "On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?” — Thomas Babington Welcome to The Up Wing, Edition 1, the best in progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly. We report

Global life expectancy is projected to increase by nearly 5 years by 2050

It's one of the best headlines of the year you might have missed. The average global life expectancy is forecasted to increase by nearly five years by 2050, from 73.6 years to 78.1 years, as the average global burden of disease continues to fall. Global life

Escape From the Poverty of the Industrial Revolution

“He related the case of one woman whose two little boys, freezing and on the brink of starvation, had been caught stealing food. When a policeman took the boys home, he found the mother with six other children ‘literally huddled in a little back room, with no furniture but two

Progress in maternal mortality saves the lives of nearly 1 million mothers a year, every year

The wealthier a country is, the healthier it is. Variation in income can explain over seventy per cent of the variation in infant and child mortality. No country with an income per capita above $10,000 has an infant mortality rate above two percent.” — Progress, Ten Reasons to Look Forward

How child mortality fell from 40% to 3.7% in 200 years

“Infant mortality is such a powerful indicator because low rates are impossible to achieve without having a combination of several critical conditions that define good quality of life.” — Vaclav Smil in Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World For tens of thousands of years,