The Progress Forum

• Eli Dourado AMA (lots of great questions and detailed answers!)
• When did England start seeing itself as a commercial nation? (Anton Howes)
• The progress movement could use some explicit cause areas

Announcements

• New book on factors affecting medical progress (via @markkhurana)
• ARIA, the ARPA of the UK, now legally exists and has a budget (via @logangraham)

Links

• Medieval peasants likely did not work fewer hours than we do (via @jmhorp)
• “Do-it-yourself crafts only exist when you no longer have to do everything yourself”
• Oklo has submitted a plan for a nuclear fuel recycling facility (via @oklo)
• Our World in Data topic page on Democracy (via @bbherre)
• “The whole saga feels to me like it’s part of a climate politics of sacrifice”

Quotes

• The amazing progress in Asian agriculture in the late 20th century
• A brilliant passage from John McPhee’s The Control of Nature

Retweets

• A lot of public health pronouncements don’t take into account that people enjoy things
• If you want to see a progress studies community on Hive.one, nominate it here
• A 1931 article on the potential for rocket-based passenger travel (@1517fund)