
Making rational optimism cool
| Platform | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly | |
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| Issues | 199 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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In today’s Diary:
She came home a doomer
A city lifted from below
The farm with all-night sunshine
The evilest book ever written
“Do less” environmentalism is dead
Hey Rational Optimist,
My 7-year-old daughter...
The World Health Organization is reassuring us that the public health risk from hantavirus is low, after the outbreak on a cruise ship. Hantaviruses are a classic zoonosis: caught from animals. You have to inhale dust containing infected ro...
In today’s Diary:
Pink poodles & plastic astronauts
1,300 acres of controlled chaos
Robots + mud = affordable homes
Waymo for the construction site
Find your Rwanda
The first thing I noticed was the pink pood...
In today’s Diary:
Two 20-year-olds vs the Pentagon
An invisible drone ocean
Shoot the archer, not the arrow
48 drones packed like ice pops
Make sure your kids know this
Hey Rational Optimist,
All is good here i...
In today’s Diary:
The most important city in the world
Ian will steamroll the competition
The Idiot Index
Satellite bodyguards
IKEA instructions for rockets
Hey Rational Optimist,
I told a group of 25 investors...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Rational Optimist Society - Founder
Founder and EIC Rational Optimist Society. Reformed cynic.
Welcome to the Rational Optimist. I’m Matt Ridley and I have spent the past 40 years writing on topics of import and intrigue, which for me include genetics, evolution, technology and innovation.
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