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December 13, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

Space is one of those frontiers, like the seabed beneath retreating polar ice, where you might expect international flexing over resources. You wouldn’t be wrong. But where innovation is at play, there’s also an opportunity for collaborative work that could ultimately benefit humankind. Jason Thomson reports today on efforts to harvest solar energy from Earth’s orbit and beam it down for use.


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Syrians celebrate the toppling days earlier of the repressive government of Bashar al-Assad, in the capital, Damascus, Dec. 11, 2024.
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Shrimper Greg Miller, aboard his boat, Redemption, at the docks in Mayport, Florida, talks about a state constitutional amendment preserving fishing and hunting rights.

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“Fishing boats at Choshi in Shimosa,” from the woodblock print series “One Thousand Views of the Sea” by Hokusai, c. 1828-38.

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The portrait of novelist Jane Austen by James Andrews that appears on the Bank of England’s £10 note.

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People share a little mobile seasonal cheer as they drive their mopeds in Erisdorf, Germany, Dec. 8, 2024.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris and Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thanks for ending your week with us. We’re deep into story-planning for next week. One piece in view: a report on how fentanyl and related precursor chemicals are getting across the U.S. southern border and to interior states. Sarah Matusek looks at emerging solutions in the Mountain West.

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