Review of the year 2019

• 99 good news from 2019 from Krautreporter Link
• The best 24 news from 2019 for the TimeMagazine Link
• The best 19 news from Unicef from the first half of 2019 Link
• The best news from Unicef from the second half of 2019 Link
• 17 technological developments of the decade. What will remain and change. Link
• 15 Economic developments in the decade. How perceived abysses present themselves in retrospect…and how German unicornshot. Link

And because it is so beautiful – here once again the 32 best news stories of the last few years – from Master of the overview Hans Rosling. Link 

• Stories against hate. A podcast that will captivate and warm you. Listen in and be amazed. Episode 7 – What to do against hate and violence. Link
• Police training in Germany – significantly reduces xenophobic attitudes, as a long-term study found. Link
• You are not alone out there – Carefully selected images from surveillance cameras in Cape Town, Amsterdam and Lancaster have shown that in 9 out of 10 cases of aggression and violence, at least one bystander rushes to the victim's aid. The Bystander phenomenon seems worth checking. Link to the news // Link to the study
• Showing pupils and civil courage in the face of bullying on Bavarian buses – Be a Coolrider – The Coolrider project began in Nuremberg and Augsburg, in which pupils in Year 7 can train to become volunteer mediators so that they can intervene in bullying and conflicts in a considered, trained and supportive manner. Link to the message Link to the website
• In India In 2011, 268 million people still earned less than 1.90 $ per day. According to the World Bank, this made them extremely poor. In 2019, it was still 50 million people…218 million people have escaped extreme poverty. This should give courage to the remaining 50 million people in India! Link
• And by the way..1981 (38 years ago) 42% were still alive of all people on earth in extreme poverty. In 2015 it was still 10%! Link And other qualities in figures. Link
• Afropositivism in view of the developments in Sub-Saharan Africa less poor, better education – also for women, lower infant mortality, higher life expectancy, ach…Look at the data and the table itself…you will be amazed! Link

For 10 years there has been the The „Zwergpisncher“ – family's musical review of the year is always a highlight.

Nostalgia helps twice

• What is nostalgia for? To protect yourself from bad moods. That's interesting, given that it is sometimes seen as an expression of a bad mood…,  Link
• To the History, how to think about nostalgia was Link
• Nostalgia as Source of strength. Blog post