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Believe it or not, the world is getting better year-on-year. We are healthier, we live longer, with far fewer of us living in poverty, and many more children surviving infancy.  Global metrics indicate a long-term trend of improvement across multiple areas; yet, many of us still struggle to shake the feeling that the world is on fire. Why is that? For one thing, we live in an age of 24-hour news. Crises are not just reported at 6 pm and 9 pm - they're reported constantly, acr

I had lots of lovely replies and well-wishes to my post about pain last week - thank you so much to those who wrote to me.  I wanted to...