Shareables - Hope & Optimism #6

This week: Nobel Prizes, breakthroughs in cancer, and cheetah reintroduction [View this email in your browser]( Hey everyone, We’re back to help divert your attention away from the global chaos and keep you looking forward into the future with renewed hope! As usual, disorder runs rampant with warnings of a nuclear ‘Armageddon’ and tensions escalating between US and China. Let’s try not to be consumed by this and instead shift our energy and focus onto more productive and positive happenings. Let’s start off strong below! If it's your first time reading or a friend sent this to you, you can [subscribe here](. [(1) 2022 Nobel Prizes have been announced]( Nobel Prizes were just announced and some truly groundbreaking work was highlighted, most of which we can’t even begin to understand. However, they sound amazing and we wanted to share the one that confused (and impressed) us the most! [2022 Nobel Prize in Physics]( Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science” When we first read this, our response was “Huh? What are these words?” Simply put, these three researchers showed that when multiple tiny particles are linked together, or “entangled,” [whatever happens to one of them will happen to ALL of them, even over insanely long distances (think galaxies apart)](. This phenomenon can’t be explained by the laws of physics and the researchers themselves don’t know why this happens, but it does suggest that information can be “teleported” between these linked particles. The discovery breaks down the door for quantum research and allows us to imagine mind-boggling technologies like quantum internet, computers, sensors, telescopes, and more! Personally we can’t even begin to understand how they discovered these things, but the fact that these discoveries are happening at all make us incredibly optimistic for the future of humanity. Teleportation? Yes please! You can read about [all of the Noble Prizes that were awarded here](. Image via Nobel Prize YouTube video "Announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics" [(2) Discoveries about air pollution may completely change how we understand cancer]( For a long time now, most people have understood that smoking increases the chances of lung cancer, but it turns out the underlying biological processes may be more complex than that. Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London discovered that rather than causing the damage itself, air pollution was “waking up” old damage from before. Most people think of cancer this way: cell DNA mutates over and over until it reaches a tipping point and grows uncontrollably as a cancer. The problem with this is that cancerous mutations can be found in healthy tissues and that cancer-causing substances (e.g. air pollution) don’t actually damage your DNA. Giving clarity to this problem, researchers found that the damage in our cell’s DNA already exists, but something needs to act as a trigger to make it cancerous. In studying air pollution, scientists focused on a particle of pollution that’s far smaller than the diameter of a human hair, called PM2.5, and observed that breathing it in releases a chemical alarm, interleukin-1-beta, which causes dormant and normally healthy mutations to become cancerous. This revises our understanding of how tumors are initiated and is a massive breakthrough in understanding the effects of air pollution and cancer. Imagine being able to prevent cancer simply by taking a pill that blocks the cancer alarm signal. [(Full article)]( [(3) After 70 years of being extinct in India, cheetahs are finally reintroduced]( In 1952, cheetahs were declared extinct in India; they’ve been gone for 70 years now. A few weeks ago, 8 cheetahs were flown via a modified passenger Boeing 747 plane and helicopter to Kuno National Park which is a sanctuary spanning approximately 289 square miles. They were accompanied by wildlife experts, veterinary doctors, and three biologists and will be quarantined for a month before being released into the national park. Apparently, this is the first time a carnivore of that size has been transplanted from one continent to another for the purpose of wildlife reintroduction. Each cheetah has been assigned a dedicated team of volunteers to keep watch over the animal’s movements via satellite radio collars. Communities have voiced concerns about the obvious risks of introducing a species to a brand new habitat, but officials have given reassurance, explaining that cheetahs are highly adaptable animals and that the national park has be thoroughly and comprehensively examined for habitat, prey, and man-animal conflict. We’re just excited to hear that the potential for new cheetah life in India exists again! [(Full article)]( Image via pexels / Magda Ehlers "No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity." - Jack Kornfield As always, we'd love to hear your feedback regarding the newsletter. Let us know if you have any thoughts, suggestions, or ideas and email us directly at newsletter@sbly.com. 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