We love good news stories and Andrew Craig often discusses the enormous benefit of curating a healthy, positive set of news sources for overall happiness. This The Progress Network piece by Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷 discusses the staggering decline in worldwide mortality

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Does the US economy make you feel gloomy?

This week, TPN founder Zachary Karabell and TPN exec. director Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷 spoke with economist and author Allison Schrager, about why that is and why she sees things differently.

theprogressnetwork.org/podcast/the-ho…

there was a lot of ink spilled over ~2021 seeing the largest recorded increase in homicides. Now we're seeing one of largest recorded decreases in homicides. So... the pandemic was unique, and now we're seeing reversion to mean.

axios.com/2023/12/28/us-…

'I can’t scroll far...without seeing a post on dating red flags versus green flags, but essentially no social media content exists for how to evaluate other social media content,' writes TPN director Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷 on how to spot a green flag news source.

emmaexplains.substack.com/p/a-red-flag-s…

Senegal has seen dark days since 2019, with the sitting president trying mightily to illegally remain in power.

The public persisted, though, and last month elected a new president, Africa's youngest.

Enjoyed writing this newsletter edition on Senegal's democracy 180 👇

Very good to see the increasing self-reported life satisfaction of young people in the world!

— from the new World Happiness Report: worldhappiness.report/ed/2024/happin…

I thought everyone wanted IG & FB to crack down on political content (ie, users see less of it generally), but now that they have done it, everyone is still mad?

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

congrats to thailand for overwhelmingly voting to legalize same sex marriage

the first country in southeast asia to do so

This video posted on X with more than 500,000 views doesn't show today's Baltimore Key Bridge collapse.

It's a video published by media outlets, including CNN, in October 2022 attributed to the explosion at the Kerch Bridge in Crimea.

This is a CT scan of Heinz’s new ketchup cap. It represents a $1.2 million engineering investment over 8 years. Here’s why it’s significant… 🧵

🌈Greece becomes the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex marriage!

🎧Listen to the entire conversation with hosts TPN founder Zachary Karabell and TPN exec. director Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷 on our podcast What Could Go Right?

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Explore the prevalence of #cannabis use in Europe dashboard of the #EuropeanDrugReport2023 by recall period, age and country and get an overview of European and national trends: emcdda.europa.eu/publications/e…

💎This week in the What Could Go Right? newsletter we're talking about lab-grown diamonds!

💍That's right. The ethical, cheaper alternative, which is indistinguishable from natural diamonds, is finally becoming popular.

theprogressnetwork.org/lab-grown-diam…

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theprogressnetwork.org/vesuvius-chall… Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷