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Plain English with Derek Thompson

ChatGPT, Obesity Drugs, Exoplanet Images, and Medical Miracles: The Most Amazing Breakthroughs of 2022

Plain English with Derek Thompson

The Ringer

News Commentary, News

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Derek talks to economist and writer Eli Dourado about the most exciting scientific and technological discoveries of the year, from the AI toys that everybody seems to be playing with to lesser-known breakthroughs in bioscience, clean energy hardware, and precise atomic manipulation. Due to the holidays, we will be skipping our Friday episode this week. However, we’ll be back next Tuesday to revisit one of our favorite interviews from the past year as we inch closer to 2023. Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Eli Dourado Producer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.5

Today's episode is one of my favorites of the year. Last week I published an

0:33.6

article in the Atlantic about the 10 greatest, coolest breakthroughs of 2022.

0:41.4

That is what were the most interesting and important discoveries or

0:44.8

inventions in the last year across any scientific domain, bioscience, clean

0:50.2

energy, vaccinology, nanotechnology, AI. What was APEX Mountain for humankind?

0:58.2

I've said before on this show that I think there is a negativity bias in news,

1:02.7

which results in this list being a surprise for me and for many listeners.

1:07.9

I think it's sneaky weird that this list is a surprise, that the most important

1:13.3

breakthroughs of the year typically come as a shock because the news media is

1:17.9

significantly more efficient at surfacing and its readers are more efficient at

1:22.8

sharing news that makes us afraid or outrage rather than news that makes us

1:28.1

curious or even hopeful. For example, I'm not sure that most people know we are

1:34.0

in a golden age of obesity therapies. Until very, very recently, most

1:40.2

reasonable doctors did not prescribe medications or pills or injectables for

1:45.9

weight loss, like the term weight loss pill was very rightly a pejorative.

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