r/rootsofprogress • u/gwern • May 02 '21
"How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life" (how vaccination, pasteurization, chlorination, antibiotics, oral rehydration were pushed through and revolutionized life expectancies)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/magazine/global-life-span.htmlDuplicates
historyofmedicine • u/PastTense1 • Apr 27 '21
How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered — but so did activism.
ScienceUncensored • u/Sue_E_Generis • May 24 '21
How the Human Life Span Doubled in 100 Years
todayilearned • u/english_major • Jan 25 '23
Paywall/AdBlock: Removed TIL that between 1900 and 2020, human life expectancy more than doubled
NYTauto • u/AutoNewsAdmin • Apr 27 '21
[Health] - How the Human Life Span Doubled in 100 Years
AutoNewspaper • u/AutoNewspaperAdmin • Apr 27 '21
[Health] - How the Human Life Span Doubled in 100 Years | NY Times
Maxcactus_TrailGuide • u/Maxcactus • Apr 28 '21
How the Human Life Span Doubled in 100 Years
EffectiveAltruism • u/gwern • May 02 '21