Among the items in the subscriber-only section of this Fix the News:
— Poverty is continuing to decline around the world, with good news from Thailand, Indonesia, Colombia and Uruguay.
— China’s clean-tech exports in 2026 are on track to avoid carbon dioxide emissions roughly equivalent to Brazil’s annual emissions, says CarbonBrief.
— “Physicists just redefined what a fluid actually is, and Quanta has written a beautiful article about what this reveals,” says Fix the News. I agree that the article is beautifully written and visually beautiful.
Quanta Magazine describes itself this way: “Our work often resembles journalistic alchemy — we mash together the complexities of science with the malleable art of storytelling in an attempt to forge a precious new alloy.”
Writer Charlie Wood certainly seems to have accomplished that here.
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Here is John’s commentary today, titled ‘The Nvidia crisis lands on a shifting political landscape’
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