Hi friends 👋,
Happy Friday and welcome back to our 189th Weekly Dose of Optimism.
There are a couple of big themes this week: energy, and non-invasive, non-molecular control of the human body and brain. If we’d published this week’s Dose back in, say, 1995, I worry that a few readers would drop dead from shock. It’s hard to recognize you’re in a sci-fi novel when you’re living through it, but if you zoom out a little bit, it sure looks like we are.
I’d highly recommend the Extra Doses this week, for Friedberg contextualizing everything happening and why it’s good, and for one of the craziest stories we’ve covered in Science Breakthroughs on gene control in mice using electromagnetic fields. Plus, Science Breakthroughs now have one-sentence plain English summaries thanks to a request from Chris B.
Let’s get to it.
