This is edition 189 of Not Boring's Weekly Dose of Optimism, and its two dominant themes are energy and non-invasive control of the human body and brain. The standout item is a Science Breakthroughs entry on gene expression control in mice using electromagnetic fields, no molecular intervention required. That alone justifies reading the full issue.
Friedberg contributes an Extra Dose contextualizing the current moment across both themes. The science items now include one-sentence plain English summaries, added at reader request. These are not incremental lab findings. They are the kind of results that, published 30 years ago, would have read as fiction.
The original is worth reading in full not for the conclusion but for the accumulation: multiple independent breakthroughs landing in the same week, across energy and neuroscience, that collectively suggest the pace of change is compressing faster than most people's mental models can absorb.
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