I have a treadmill to lower blood pressure and hopefully live longer.

Thousands donated to help Nebraska farmers after wildfires.

Albanians taking their land back from the Trumps.

Good News roundup for the month:

- Green Sea Turtles are no longer endangered: https://earth.org/green-sea-turtles-no-longer-endangered-species-in-major-conservation-win/

- Pioneering trial for treating genetic disease before birth nears reality: https://archive.md/ap00C

- Adding immunotherapy to colon cancer treatment found to halve the risk of recurrence or mortality: https://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2026-03-27-medicine-immunotherapy-significantly-improves-outcomes-colon-cancer?utm_source=chatgpt.com

- 2026 is on track to see the lowest homicide rate in US history: https://jasher.substack.com/p/2026-will-likely-have-the-lowest

- Guinea Worm Disease reaches historic low; just 10 cases in 2025, down from 3.5 million a year in the 1980s: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/guinea-worm-disease-reaches-all-time-low-only-10-human-cases-reported-in-2025/

But the turtles one was last October. What if something changed? 😢 

Just had the most amazing day and had to share; we just wrapped up one of the school programs for autistic teens I'm working on and the feedback from the kids made me tear up a bit; one of the kids wrote "thanks for making me feel like I belong" which hit so hard.

This "whale graveyard" is teeming with life!

Rare "Miner's Cat" Sighted

I'm visiting my parents atm in rural Aus and last night when I went outside there was a wombat right there, like 5 meters away, happily grazing away. It wasn't even scared of me as they're so used to my mum and stepdad being around.

It was a really magical moment. (Excuse the poor image quality, it was dark and my phone is old and crap)

First Commerical Fusion Plant in construction in Washington State

As someone who knows a thing or two about physics, I was rather skeptical when I first read about this article, but doing some more research has made me genuinely, though still cautiously, optimistic about the future of fusion. The first commerical fusion reactor is being built here in the States (surprised the hell outta me we are the ones doing it). If successful there is a genuine argument to be made for investments to fusion energy en masse as a replacement for most energy sources. It offers a fair number of advantages over every form of electricity generation.

Less carbon emissions than fossil fuels
Less space than Solar and Wind
No battery issue like Solar has
No nuclear waste like Fission

I'm optimistic as it does not rely so much on major advances in physics (like a new magnetic or superconductors) but more engineering challenges, many of which are resolved by just making the magnet bigger. There are still many challenges, so it is by no means a done deal, but they seem to be progressing in a good direction.

For scale, 50 MW equates to about 438 GWh a year, which while a paltry drop in the bucket compared to the US's total energy demand ~4 PWh a year or 4.2 million GWh is certainly something to look out for.

Went for a walk in the bush to clear my head; it was beautiful and made me feel better