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We are often bombarded with fear-mongering and shocking headlines that make us feel that the world is falling apart.

However, while it’s important to report on problems and issues, I believe there is so much good in this world that it needs to be found and promoted just as widely.

Because of that, I started The Happy Broadcast. It's an anti-venom to the vitriolic rhetoric that pervades our media. Also, this year, I’ve illustrated even more happy news than in 2018.

We need more positive news to acknowledge that the world is actually getting better little by little.

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When I'm working on The Happy Broadcast, I try to pick news that has an international appeal and touches themes like animal rights, climate change and science. News that shows how much we’re progressing on many fronts despite being often bombarded with few-mongering headlines.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so happy for their victory, but just find it bonkers that an indigenous tribe had to fight a legal battle to protect their land in the first place.

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I think there are many reasons why negative news is dominating the media. It's like a sudden disaster a, it's more compelling than, for example, little improvements. Bad things can happen quickly, but good things aren’t built in a day, and as they unfold, they're out of sync with the news cycle.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This must make many people happy due to one act. Lovely initiative.

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As humans, we have this thing called “negative bias” that make us respond quicker to bad or dangerous situations. Nowadays, this bias is getting in the way of our happiness and well-being, and even our productivity because most of the narrative surrounding us (print, online or mobile) is that the “world is ending".

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hopefully supermarkets worldwide can implement more eco friendly alternatives also.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More funding is needed for stem cell research. They have already discovered some incredible ways stem cells can help with paralysis and other movement disorders etc. Imagine what else they can discover.

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I think we should find a balance between negative and positive news. From politics to climate change and economy, negative and bad news surrounds us everywhere we go. A potential solution could be to limit the amount of bad news, basically slow down our personal news cycle, adding some positive news to our “news diet” to make sure that our outlook on the world is more optimistic. Also, it's very important to invest time to deal with misinformation and the reliability of news sources.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hm, I think Sweden must have forgot to apply then. We dont have stray dogs, at least for decades. Any lost dog gets collected, if no owner is found it gets adopted via Animal Protection. I have seen one or two lost dogs, where we found the owner, but never a genuine stray.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Steps like these show the power of the State in achieving large scale sustainable results if there is a will.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SOOOO not against this! But....shouldn't it be equal pay for equal skill? (meaning, no race, gender, age, or any discrimination at all!) If you have more skill in the task, you get paid more, if you have less you get paid less. Plain and simple (yet I know it is more difficult to prove wrong-doing that way too)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a great contrast to all the negativity we hear about women's value in India.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you, thank you, thank you! The bees thank you, and I thank you.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have always hated circuses. Even when I was so young I did not have the words to explain why I was crying. So good to see this!!!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll believe it when I see it. There have been stories of oil eating bacteria, and all sorts of magical things that eat the bad stuff. I hope to see it, but until then....

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is fantastic. Sooooo many people end up in jail or dead because we fail them as a society.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nairobi has a baby elephant orphanage. So I guess not. Of course, if they are brought up in the orphanage, which is by Nairobi National Park, then they are not sold to a zoo or circus.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's adorable. Not sure how something involving grown adults and the most massive terrestrial animals can be adorable, but somehow it is.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great for packaging! For almost everything else, not so much. But still a great step forward!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is brilliant! And this research has taken a very long time to bear fruit. Thank god for scientists ;p

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is great! This is what us grown ups need to do for the climate strike kids.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So wonderful to see compassion making the law. * cries just a bit *

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is definitely a good thing, but be careful to remember that fortnite is known for an especially toxic crunch culture. Employees are expected to work insane hours with no pay. Planting forests is good, but he should also be held responsible for the unfair and harmful working conditions his company creates.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is great, but we've still got a long way to go towards equality

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Black men are still incarcerated at three times the average rate in the U.S., and still receive harsher sentences for comparable offenses than white criminals.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We should include this in the Men's rights movement and fight for solving it as well.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Proof that if given the equal chance for education, health and basic rights people can strive to be better

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Proof that laws that force equality can move a population forward. I will be so happy when racism dies.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank God Almighty, Thank God at last, just keep on a pushing

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

am I the only one questioning the implication (by the percentages given) that 25% of black men are rich? More (by 7%) black men are rich than poor? I'd applaud it, but I don't quite believe it...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

where did you get those numbers? just because someone isn't poor doesn't automatically mean they're rich...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can anyone cite the research on this. It seems too good to be true.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It appears Marin Luther King's dream is starting to bear fruit! How wonderful.

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Angela Gallant
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but now even a young adult is shot for answering the door thanks to antagonistic prejudice of white people

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We've done this in a single generation but F america because it's racist and white people suck right?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So drop the stereotype of the majority of black people being poor from your brains.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The answer to most problems is an increase in living standards.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would have to question those statistics. Wish it was true.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This looks good on the surface but actually what it attests is that now black men have bought the lie of the matrix and succumbed to it. And now they are paying to have people in other countries killed. Rather black men could have started another platform, one that raised everyone including them without capitulating to this system run by criminals.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That what happens when you aren't stupid enough to think Donald Trump is a racist.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How can an egomaniac make anybody rich, especially those which came, I quote, from "s****y" countries? Just the facts, please, Hayden.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a dream to how about just stop racism and by that let us legalise the usage of word n****r for all the races :) :) :)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With billions in welfare, mind you. What happens if it ends?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was only a study based on a cohort of men born in the 50s and 60s. This number doesn’t include anyone under the age of 50. This is great for baby boomers but youth and younger adults in the US are really struggling, these stats are super misleading and don’t take into account anything impacting younger folx (explosion of the prison industrial complex and mass incarceration, destruction of the voting rights act, wage stagnation since the 80s, lack of affordable housing, etc). This number is going down across all demographics, Americans are getting poorer and black and brown folx are disproportionately affected.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not a Trump supporter, but his numbers of black unemployment can't be ignored.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So why are they not voting conservative? The progressives certainly didn't have a hand at this! I'm happy for the black race, but they really need to understand who is in their corner!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pleased to hear that, it’s a very good sign, let’s hope it keeps improving.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To which definition of the term “middle class” are you referring? Is it referring to an income or purchasing power. At a time when rent and other living costs are so high, it’s not enough to look at someone’s income as a reflection of their wellbeing. A person can work 2-3 jobs in order to be classified as “middle class”, technically yes, but how does that fit into most people’s ideology of the cultural aspects of being middle class?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now let's see 0% in the lower class, 30% middle, and 70% upper.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just don't like that they call the USA America, forgeting about all the other countrys also in America. 'Cause I'm pretty sure that percentage does not include Brasil. Since we've been awful, expecially this year with the devil as president.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@Russian Oktaku I agree, but u could've said it nicer, and w/o the 'f**k this black s**t' bc BLACK LIVES MATTER

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can I just add that this "statement" goes for black women also.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here we go again: Bored Panda is looking at the world through the pink glasses. That will not change the world for the better.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People don’t count as unemployed if they aren’t looking for work, so this number includes neither people who are underemployed (ie working 3 minimum wage jobs and still unable to make rent) or people who have dropped out of the workforce all together. This stat is misleading at best.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would have happened a lot sooner had Malcolm X's teachings been taken more seriously instead of Martin Luther King Jr's.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mostly thanks to Mr. Trump, but I guess we'll ignore that part right? Orange Man Bad!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Black unemployment numbers are the lowest on record...ever! Trump 2020

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great but I would like to know how many of them come from underfunded schools in ghettos.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While in my country, minority are getting blamed for their hardworking and the majority who often relying on the government handout are blaming us for stealing their wealth. LoL.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What? What do you think Trump did to somehow cause this? And what if I told you these numbers were the same BEFORE 2016?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So Trump's economy is working? Oh NOOOOOOOO! We must stop it and drag blacks back to the bottom where democrat policies have kept them forever!

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Ffs this stupid black s**t. How about Indian reservations eh? Or every f*****g body else that ain't black or white in the usa.

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Its time to stop bitching and whining about blacks being oppressed!~

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The rabid, right-wingers still spewing their nonsense that renewables will drive prices up so high no one will be able to have electricity will not be noticing this development. The belief disconfirmation paradigm is too powerful for some people to overcome.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Glad to see them come back. Sad that they died out there in the first place.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ironic to place greenery on the exact place where ice and snow should be.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is nice, but it would be better if children being educated wasn’t contingent on their parents paying any sort of fee.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sweet! Now they just need to do something about the cattle ranchers.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*one of mathematics most prestigious awards. The Abel prize for mathematics. The most prestigious is the fields medal, was first (and so far only) won by a woman in 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe so but what research has been made to find out the effects seaweed has on the cows body. We already know that corn isn’t very good for them yet they are still fed a high corn diet in some countries (US particularly).

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although the use of solar panels is green, many solar panel manufacturing processes are not. To create a solar panel, caustic materials will emit greenhouse gases. Plus less than 11% of each panel has salvageable metals so they're not very recyclable once they're usable life has expired. Most people aren't aware that the 'green' alternatives often aren't.

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