Archive - The Angry Optimist

🏞️ Toxic algal blooms nearly gone from the Klamath River

The dams stored heat like a battery and released warm water in the fall.

2 hrs ago • The Angry Optimist

📱 Large study: Screen time is not linked to problems in most children

Unlike many earlier studies, this one factored in the relationship with parents.

19 hrs ago • The Angry Optimist

💡 The Angry Optimist #342 (formerly Warp News)

Surely grooming has to be a depressing story?

Nov 4 • Mathias Sundin

🇷🇸 Serbia's students are testing new democratic methods

A student movement that began with protests after the Novi Sad disaster that killed 16 people has won the election in Serbia.

Nov 4 • Team Optimist

📞 Scammers have wasted 17 years talking to AI bots

The bots have collected over 250,000 pieces of intelligence on the scammers, such as bank accounts.

Nov 4 • The Angry Optimist

🔭 Nine-billion-year-old signal could help explain dark energy

Just 94 nights of measurements were enough. The telescope has almost seven years of data.

Nov 3 • The Angry Optimist

🛡️ The predator sounds like a friend — now AI is learning to tell the difference

Grooming often starts with a friendly question that is hard for ordinary filters to detect.

Nov 3 • Mathias Sundin

🐘 Razor wire that cut elephants on North Bengal tea estates has fallen by 74 percent

Eight elephant corridors, the elephants' routes between forests, were measured in 2019 and 2026.

Nov 3 • The Angry Optimist

🖥️ Data center heat is stored in bedrock until winter

The energy used for construction was paid back in just over a year.

Nov 2 • The Angry Optimist

🇱🇻 27 percent fewer alcohol deaths in Latvia

More than 60 deaths averted in five months in the EU's heaviest-drinking country.

Nov 2 • The Angry Optimist

🫀 Untapped ECG data from sleep studies predicts heart disease

An AI model needs only one ECG lead instead of the usual twelve.

Nov 1 • The Angry Optimist

🇿🇦 Rhino poaching has fallen nearly 80 percent in South African park

More than 1,000 rhinos had their horns sawed off. In January, not a single one was killed.

Nov 1 • The Angry Optimist

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