OK this story is almost a half decade old – but it’s still great. A TV show showing only good news…
“In June 2020 the BBC will be celebrating the 10th year of their Good News program. Over the years the popularity of Good News TV has grown and grown. The program has concentrated on good and positive news stories that have happened around the world…”
Who’d’uh thunk?
I had to chuckle at this good news piece. A lady in England gets a note from the battle front. He was fighting on the Western Front in November 1917. It was sent to her mother but lost in transit and delivered now, 90 years late. Not particularly valuable news intrinsicly but the fact that a news producer had less space left for bad news makes it good enough for me.
I’ve been thinking lately the best way to stop climate change is to change our social norms. One in praticular comes to mind. When entering a premise with double doors wait the extra two to three seconds until the first door closes before opening the second door. This will ensure the hot or cool inside air is not drawn outside. I believe this should be a courteosly to those close to the door to not have to experience such a drastic change in temperature.
I believe we should call this new policy air courteously. To those from the United States Air Security is a better term.
Kathryn has written in to tell us about an article in the Toronto Star about how things around the world are improving.
“How dare a conservative American economist tell us things are getting a whole lot better as if global warming wasn’t happening, as if Africa wasn’t being ravaged by AIDS, and if what’s happening in Iraq wasn’t an utter catastrophe.
Goklany, though, has assembled persuasive evidence that the state of the world is indeed, “improving.””
Tea cups get stained and that’s a fact that once was bad and now is good. Thanks to artist Bethan Wood who has made a tea cup that shows groovy designs when it gets stained.
“Stain is a set of a teacups designed to improve through use. This project examines the assumption that use is damaging to a product (For example, scratches on an iPod).
The interior surface of the cup is treated so as to stain more in predetermined places. The more the cups are used, the more the pattern is revealed. Over time they will build up an individual pattern dependent on the users personal way of drinking tea.”