Signals from the Future
🏂 Winter Olympics could be a thing of the past
From rising temperatures and unpredictable weather to the quality of snow on the slopes, climate collapse is posing a long-term threat to winter sports. (Will we have to broaden them and move them indoors?)
🧓🏿 Boomer "granfluencers" are smashing stereotypes
A growing number of internet influencers in their 60s and 70s are aging well by inspiring their younger fans and spreading positivity—not to mention making money as social media sensations.
🛰 Pentagon looking for garbage collectors...for space
If we’re gonna race for it, we’d better tidy it up. The Pentagon’s Orbital Prime program is offering seed money to develop technology to gather up the spent rocket parts and dead satellites littering low Earth orbit.
💇🏽♀️ A hair-based test for autism?
The FDA has granted “breakthrough device” designation to StrandDx, a new test that analyzes chemicals in a child’s hair to help predict their chances of being autistic. (If they are, let’s help them see the future.)
✅ Gun owners must purchase insurance
Strengthening the social fabric, San Jose, CA, passed a first-of-its-kind law that requires handgun owners to buy and maintain liability insurance and pay a fee that funds gun safety training, mental health services, and domestic violence and suicide prevention.
🐝 New houses to be built with bee bricks
Meanwhile, in Brighton and Hove, in southern England, a new law calls for new-building construction to include special bricks designed for bee nests. (Will the insects detect diabetes in return?)
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