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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…
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Global Union of Scientists for Peace – a Scientific Solution to Terrorism and Conflict
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An open letter to President Hollande, President Obama, President Putin, the leaders of all nations, and the philanthropic peace-loving citizens of the world [to see this letter as it appeared in a full page advertisement in the International New York Times go here] The leaders of Europe, Russia, and the U.S. have been struggling to…
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One of San Francisco’s toughest schools transformed by the power of meditation
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By Anna Leach – The Guardian – 24 Nov 2015 A pioneering programme has reduced stress and improved grades at Visitacion Valley middle school – with lessons other schools can learn from There was a time when Visitacion Valley middle school in San Francisco could have featured in a gritty US crime drama. Surrounded by drugs…
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Why filmmaker David Lynch says Transcendental Meditation is the secret to success
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By Alene Dawson – June 3, 2016 – Los Angeles Times The director and writer behind the cult TV series “Twin Peaks” and movies including “Mulholland Drive” was in Los Angeles recently to lend support to Georgetown University School of Medicine clinical psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal who was speaking on a panel about his new…