Future Perfect

Vox's Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. We tackle big questions about the most effective ways to save lives, fight global warming, and end world poverty to create a more perfect future.

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10 hours ago
Why 597 million chickens go missing from America’s food supply each year
Vox - Kenny Torrella
America’s favorite animal to eat — the chicken — has also become its most expendable: In 2021, around 556 million chickens in the US died at hatcheries and on farms before reaching the slaughterhouse, their carcasses winding up in landfills, incinerators, compost heaps, or pet food. An additional 41 …
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Nov 4
What in the world is pink cocaine?
Vox - Celia Ford
On October 16, Liam Payne, a former member of One Direction, fell from his third-floor hotel room and died. Within days, headlines in TMZ, ABC News, and the Guardian announced that he had “pink cocaine” in his system. On August 10, 24-year-old Instagram model Maecee Marie Lathers killed two people …
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1 day ago
Why do so many young people suddenly have cancer?
Vox - Dylan Scott
A Vox reader asks: What happened between Gen X and millennials to send cancer rates soaring? That’s the million-dollar question in medical science today. You’ve surely seen the headlines, but let’s recap the most pertinent data: One in five new colorectal cancer patients in the United States is under …
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2 days ago
Want to help save the most lives possible? Here’s where to give money.
Vox - Dylan Matthews
If you want to help human beings alive right now, there are few better places to give than global health. Diseases that have been largely eradicated in the US still claim hundreds of thousands of lives abroad. In 2018, the most recent year for which there’s data, seven Americans died of malaria; all …
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2 days ago
I got malaria on purpose and so can you
Vox - Dylan Matthews
March 26, 2024, was a weird day for me because it was the only one in my life where I was actively trying to get bitten by mosquitos. I had volunteered to be exposed to malaria as part of a study at the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) evaluating MAM-01, an injectable drug meant to prevent …
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Should we put pig organs in humans? We asked an ethicist.
Vox - Mandy Nguyen
In 2022, surgeons transplanted the first genetically engineered pig heart into a human. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett, a patient with heart failure, survived almost two months with a pig heart beating in his chest, one of five people who have received pig organs as a part of an experimental …

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