El día de las buenas noticias | Transcripción | Radio Ambulante

a Swiss novelist once quipped, that ‘News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.’30

the psychologist Steven Pinker has argued that good news tends to unfold slowly, while bad news is often more sudden.

Remember that the media and activists rely on drama to grab your attention. Remember that negative stories are more dramatic than neutral or positive ones. Remember how simple it is to construct a story of crisis from a temporary dip pulled out of its context of a long-term improvement. Remember that we live in a connected and transparent world whe

More important, the news tends to focus mostly on incidents and areas of our planet that represent the most extreme forms of human unconsciousness, which more often than not means violence and warfare, or at least severe dysfunction. Of course, there is no denying that dreadful things happen on a daily basis, and also that we are facing an increasi

when media outlets want to grab our attention, they look for stories that are novel and unexpected over a short time horizon—and these stories are more likely to be bad than good.

«Historical Interpretation. Judgement Under Uncertainty». De un plumazo, demostró a una sala llena de historiadores profesionales cómo se puede reexaminar gran parte de la experiencia humana de un modo nuevo y fresco, si se contempla a través de la lente que él había creado con Danny. En el curso de nuestras vidas personales y profesionales, muchas