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ThingsAreGood
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A website dedicated to exploring good news. We aim to promote change and action by celebrating the positive news in the world.
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A Good Night’s Sleep is Amazing
Apparently the best thing you can do is for your body is give it a good night’s sleep. But a new study presented at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience shows how disrupting your sleep cycle can interfere with your health and cognit...
Cyclists Can Raise Property Values
Providing a safe place to lock up bicycles can increase the rental and property value of a home or apartment complex. To a cyclist like myself this seems painfully obvious, but to people living in the world of the car I guess, well, they don’t...
The Dark Side of Hope
You’ve probably heard people say that we should have reasonable goals and, you know what, they’re right. If you have reasonable expectations about the world around you, you can have a happier life – some new research backs this idea...
Canada One of the Most Peaceful Nations
Despite the fact that Canada’s current Prime Minister Stephen Harper wanted to go to war in Iraq and his commitment to keep Canadian troops fighting and dying in Afghanistan, Canada has been named the most peaceful nation in North and Central A...
Car Free Cities are Always an Option
Today I’ll cut right to the chase: car free cities are thriving in Europe. Awesome. A quarter of households in Britain – more in the larger cities, and a majority in some inner cities – live without a car. Imagine how quality of life would...
Toyota to Plant Flowers at Prius Plants
Toyota has received a lot of criticism over the production process of their Prius because the production process is quite awful for the environment. Toyota has reacted by designing new flowers to absorb bad air from the production facilities. Toyota ...

