The Golden Gate Bridge Didn’t Collapse!!

In which Hank talks about why we think the world is super screwed up and getting worse every day when, in fact, the world is pretty OK and getting better every day. There's so much good news every single day that cataloguing it would require all the newspaper in the world.

Loss Aversion: A Bad thing is twice as bad as a good thing is good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_ave...

Confirmation Bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirma... Only hearing data that agree with things you already believe.