Only happy... all the time
Okay-- so there's this site called Happy News.com and their whole goal is to provide happy news, rather than the depressing stuff.
I'm used to depressing news. Happy news? What's that like? So I had to check it out...
What I realized, after browsing the headlines for a few minutes, is that what I was doing was looking for unhappy news. It wasn't an intentional thing--- but the cynic in me was like "yeah right--- there's gotta be some bad news in here somewhere..."
There is bad news at HappyNews.com. Not just questionably good, or "good from most perspectives", news (of which there is also a lot of). Actual bad news. It took me a while to find it, but the Environment section seems so obvious in hindsight.
In the Health section though, I read an interesting story about a professor who has lost 50 lbs. and has developed a new no-diet diet. It's called "intuitive eating", and he eats whatever he wants.
Apparently, he's happy with it.
I'm used to depressing news. Happy news? What's that like? So I had to check it out...
What I realized, after browsing the headlines for a few minutes, is that what I was doing was looking for unhappy news. It wasn't an intentional thing--- but the cynic in me was like "yeah right--- there's gotta be some bad news in here somewhere..."
There is bad news at HappyNews.com. Not just questionably good, or "good from most perspectives", news (of which there is also a lot of). Actual bad news. It took me a while to find it, but the Environment section seems so obvious in hindsight.
In the Health section though, I read an interesting story about a professor who has lost 50 lbs. and has developed a new no-diet diet. It's called "intuitive eating", and he eats whatever he wants.
Apparently, he's happy with it.
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