📈 Human Progress
🗳️ Strong connection between democracy and prosperity
Of all the countries in the world rated Prosperous, all of them except two, also rank as Free. This is the result of a new index by the Atlantic Council, presented at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit. The Freedom and Prosperity Indexes show a strong connection between...
😀 Optimists live longer
Those who have an optimistic basic outlook on life are more likely to become more than 90 years old, according to a study by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the USA. The study started in the 1990s when researchers began observing 160,000 American women...
🎮 Computer games can make children smarter
Playing computer games might increase a child's intelligence, a study shows. The children who played more computer games than average increased their intelligence by about 2.5 IQ points more than other children.The study was conducted by researchers from...
🕊Forests in cities create a bird boom in New Zealand
Urban forests heal both humans and nature. Just outside of the center of Wellington you can hear 40 different bird species singing.The chorus also includes species that have been absent for generations. Zealandia, a massive urban forest, is helping to prove that...
