“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers)

I've got a peach cobbler going in the oven. Most people aren't aware of that.

Griffith University Queensland, Australia are about to start human trails on groundbreaking research into regenerating nerves in spinal cord injuries.

The war on the poor! They have nowhere to go, can’t find work, can’t find food, and get kicked out of public places because they don’t have “business” being there. The shelters are over crowded, under funded, and picky about who they let in. Inflation has made it impossible to keep food in the house, and pay for the bills/rent. And the reasons they can’t find work are that they don’t have a stable place to put on their applications, can’t pass an interview( when they get one )because of the condition of their looks, and can’t get a call back because they don’t have a phone (because they chose to eat instead of paying a phone bill). It’s really bad. And it’s all brushed under the carpet because a Cheeto felon is running for president.

The amount of energy and emissions that AI is going to require/generate over the next 10 years completely undoes all of the environmental advancements we have made in the past 10 years.

While we weren’t paying attention, China used stem cells to reverse type 1 diabetes .

Bill in the US Senate to ban major corporations from buying homes (forgive me if even I missed a detail, hilarious how little coverage it's getting).

War in Sudan. 50 million people in Sudan before it started, estimated 9 million people have been displaced and today 750 thousand are facing imminent starvation. For context there are about 5 million Palestinians total in West Bank and the Gaza Strip. I'm not trying to diminish what's happening in Palestine, just to point out how little attention Sudan gets relative to the size of the human impact it's having.

In late 2023, we saw the first-ever approval of CRISPR-based medicine: Casgevy, a cure for sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT).

There are almost 50 million people in modern slavery worldwide, and 12 million of them are children…….

The new Euclid telescope is actively taking pictures of space and piecing them together to make a map of our night sky, it just finished the first set.

The Supreme Court is essentially on the ballot but most people don't think about that. They think they're just voting for president, but balance of power on the court is what's truly at stake. Several justices will likely retire in the next 4 years and the president appoints them.

Hurricane Helene flooded a factory that makes over half of the IV fluids we use. There is a terrible shortage that is impacting care.

Forests have started releasing more C02 than they use, insects are going extinct in the united states, and cyanobacteria and algae populations in the oceans have collapsed.

In like half the US it hasn't rained in a month and mount Fuji has like zero snow on it.

We may have basically found a treatment for late stage rabies It has been working pretty well in lab test with rats

Similarly we have found a possible treatment for age-related mental diseases such as Alzheimer's by basically reactivating certain healing factors in the brain of rats and the scientists are pretty confident that this should work in the humans too The era of people living to 120-130 is closer than you think, especially when you look at the fact that especially in healthier countries like Japan there are record high numbers of people living to be over 100.

A lot of people know, but I don't think people are aware enough that big tech companies get a pass on privacy invasions because the US government can subpoena information from them that the government itself is not allowed to collect. I truly believe this is why the US government is going after TikTok so hard because they're afraid of China using the data from the app the way the US uses data from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.

ETA: Also, if TikTok is forced to be sold to American ownership, then they join the American companies in collecting information from Americans and can be compelled by the government like the others.

This one is near and dear to me:

Cabozantinib (Cabometyx) is a chemotherapy d**g that may be a new treatment option for patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). The FDA accepted a supplemental New D**g Application (sNDA) for cabozantinib in August 2024, with a target action date of April 3, 2025. The d**g is intended to treat adults with well- or moderately differentiated pancreatic or extra-pancreatic NETs that are locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic.

Multiple d***s are in/going in to human trials to regrow teeth.

Not to be the Debbie Downer here, but utter and complete social upheaval brought on by ecological and climate collapse.

We aren’t ready for the complete catastrophe that is just around the corner. News sources are barely reporting on the dangers of cascading systems let alone those that have already collapsed.

- AMOC
- BOE
- Natural Carbon Sink Overload
- Soil Quality
- Methane
- Ocean Acidification
- Wildlife Extinction
- the list goes on and on

We aren’t ready for the hell on earth that awaits us. And it’s going to happen much sooner than later.

Estimates of 2100 or end of century are straight up hopium at this point.

In a handful of highly specific cases, people have actually been fully cured of AIDS.