Chelsea Olivia Follett
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Managing Editor of @HumanProgress & @CatoInstitute Policy Analyst. Author of #CentersofProgress: https://t.co/DGV2LNs6ze
Washington, DC
Joined February 2010
I've been Managing Editor of @HumanProgress since 2014 — over a decade. In that time, the world has changed for the better:. 📈 Life expectancy rose from 72 → 73 years.👶 Infant mortality dropped from 33 → 27 per 1,000 births.🤰 Maternal mortality decreased from 231 → 197 per.
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One of the joys of parenthood is revisiting childhood classics. This Schoolhouse Rock video on the national debt still holds up, though the “shocking” numbers now seem quaint.
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THE VERITABLE QUANDARY AND GYRO SCREWLOOSE ARE NOT NOW AND NEVER WILL BE MONETIZED.One of the most popular, successful and short lived series in the history ...
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Huge congratulations to @madeleinekearns on the birth of her baby! Grateful that modern medicine could help, and her reflections on the experience are worth reading. A few years back, we spoke about birth rates on the Human Progress Podcast:
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British journalist Madeleine Kearns joins Chelsea Follett to discuss misguided eco-anxiety and why some people feel they need to choose between parenthood an...
A thousand miles from New York City, the place @MadeleineKearns call home, there’s a clinic that vows to help women with ‘unexplained infertility.’ She traveled there last year, in her quest to become a mother.
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RT @Mark_J_Perry: Just Out: Updated version of the "Chart of the Century" with data through June 2025. It should be noted that the consumer….
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RT @HumanProgress: 🇰🇷 Our book, Centers of Progress, is now available in Korean!. Special thanks to Kim Si-deok, author of The Future of Ko….
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RT @PessimistsArc: There was a medieval moral panic about pointy shoes. "Fashionable pointy-toed shoes called poulaines were alleged to pr….
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RT @reason: The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for….
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The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for filing your taxes.
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The Korean translation of Centers of Progress is beautifully designed:.
#신간안내 『40가지 테마로 읽는 도시 세계사』 . 철학의 도시 아테네부터 금융의 도시 뉴욕까지.혁신의 상징이 된 40개 도시에 새겨진.1만 년 인류 역사의 결정적 순간들!💫. ❝도시에는 새로운 사상과 운동을.키워내는 마법이 있다!❞._스티븐 핑커. 👉자세히 보러 가기:
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Thrilled to share that my book Centers of Progress is now in Korean! 🇰🇷. This edition includes new blurbs by Kim Si-deok, author of The Future of Korean Cities, and historian Choi Tae-seong. It also features many more photos and illustrations than the original.
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RT @HumanProgress: In 17th century England, torturing cattle before death was thought to tenderize their meat and, inexplicably, improve it….
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RT @JesusFerna7026: 🇲🇽 Mexico’s Fertility Collapse 📉. In 2023, Mexico’s total fertility rate (TFR) was just 1.60. Yes—lower than the U.S. (….
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RT @Marian_L_Tupy: Argentina’s economy is growing at 7.7 percent, according to the latest year-over-year data. It grew by 1.9 percent in Ap….
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RT @KentatCEI: This I believe, . People who care about improving the lives of poor people and also focus on results, inevitably come to the….
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