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My Unlikely Journey To Inner And Outer Transformation
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By Gladys Kimtai on 02/01/2016 I was born in Kapkoi, a small village in Kenya, to a Roman Catholic family. My parents died when I was two, so my grandparents raised my sister and brothers and me. My grandparents both passed away by the time I was twelve. At that point my three brothers,…
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International Yoga Day Celebration in UK Parliament
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Members of British Parliament honour leader of Maharishi’s worldwide Transcendental Meditation organisation at International Yoga Day celebration in UK Parliament, 10 July. The third International Yoga Day was celebrated in the House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Indian Traditional Sciences, and sponsored by the High…
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Guess What? As Of Today, The Western Hemisphere Has No Wars
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By Greg Myre, NPR.org (National Public Radio, USA) September 27, 2016 Fidel Castro and his rag-tag band of fighters assembled on the shores of Mexico, stealthily navigated their overcrowded boat to southeastern Cuba, and unleashed a 1956 insurgency that rocked all of Latin America. That temblor lasted 60 years and ended, more or less,…
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99 reasons why 2016 was a good year
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by Angus Hervey at Tech_Crunch You’re probably reading that and thinking, “You can’t be serious!?” I mean come on. 2016 feels like a half-watched Game of Thrones episode. You pop out to get s0me pizza, and when you get back… All the good people are dead, and the shits are in charge. 2016 has…
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Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace
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By STEVEN PINKER and JUAN MANUEL SANTOS The peace treaty announced this week between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, marks more than the end of one war. It is a milestone for peace in the Americas and the world. The 52-year war between the Colombian state…
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Actually, if you look at the bigger picture, there is a lot to be happy about right now
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from TreeHugger.com It is the time of year we think of Tiny Tim, the poor child looking through the window at the things he can never have, doomed to die young due to the lack of good health care, terrible housing, high child mortality and terrible poverty. According to Max Roser of The World…
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11 Reasons Why 2015 Was a Great Year For Humanity
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Angus Hervey, political economist, science communicator @future_crunch | community manager for @rhokaustralia | PhD from London School of Economics Dec 15, 2015 We are living through the most astonishing period of human progress in history. And nobody’s telling us about it. As 2015 draws to a close, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone…
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The Best News You Don’t Know
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Nicholas Kristof SEPT. 22, 2016 The world is a mess, with billions of people locked in inescapable cycles of war, famine and poverty, with more children than ever perishing from hunger, disease and violence. That’s about the only thing Americans agree on; we’re polarized about all else. But several polls have found that about…
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And now for the good news: why the media are taking a positive outlook
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Increasing numbers of news providers are realising that in this grisly world, readers want to feel a sense of hope. Political tumult, crime, terrorist attacks, poverty, tragedy: news always has a habit of erring on the grim side – and never more so perhaps than in the summer of 2016. But gradually an increasing…
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26 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better
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by Dylan Matthews on Vox.com March 20, 2015 The press — and humans in general — have a strong negativity bias. Bad economic news gets more coverage than good news. Negative experiences affect people more, and for longer, than positive ones. So it’s natural for things like Russia’s incursion into Ukraine or the rise of…