Beautiful News: Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats, Creative Solutions
For the past few years, David McCandless at Beautiful News Daily has been sharing infographics about positive developments in the world, the “stuff we can’t always see because we’re fixated on the negativity of the news”. Now all that good news has been bundled into a new book, Beautiful News: Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats, Creative Solutions. Here are a couple of sample pages from the book:
Getting older can be empowering if we learn to embrace it
PopSci – It’s helpful to think of ourselves as older people in training: “The following is an excerpt adapted from Breaking the Code: How your beliefs about aging determine how long and well you live by Becca Levy. Although age beliefs are assimilated and reinforced over our lifetimes, they are also malleable: I have changed them in the lab, they can shift across history, and they can vary dramatically from one culture to another. To shift from an age-declining mindset to an age-thriving one, I used scientific findings and observations to develop the ABC method….”
House & Garden: “In his new book The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens, gardener and writer Ben Dark talks through some of Britain’s best-loved plants in a tour of the front gardens along one London street. In this edited extract he reflects on the history of the magnolia tree.”
Speaking of Poets Szymborska Had Something to Say