Break the bad news bubble (Part 2) | Angus Hervey

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🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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It's time for our periodic update of good news from Angus Hervey, founder of Fix the News, an independent publication that reports stories of global progress. In a quick talk, he shares three major updates of recent human progress on eradicating ancient diseases, establishing massive new ocean sanctuaries and transforming children's rights. (This conversation was recorded on December 2, 2024.)

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0:31.8	Christmas catch up. Let's do diaries. Oh, that clashes with my work do. That's the day of the
0:36.5	nativity. We're booked to see Santa.
0:38.3	We're out picking a tree.
0:39.3	There's in-laws to visit, pantomimes to see.
0:41.1	I've got to write a thousand Christmas cards.
0:43.5	Until somehow, we're here.
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1:29.7	It's time for our periodic update of good news. That's right. Journalist and the founder of Fix the News, Angus Hervey, updates us periodically
1:35.9	with the stories that might not arouse that much attention because they aren't about death,
1:42.0	destruction, or despair. He shares big stories of progress that
1:46.2	happened in the last three months of 2024. I'm Angus Harvey, and I'd like to tell you
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