American Optimist - Stossel in the Classroom

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Don’t let the bad news get you down — there’s LOTS of good news that media mostly ignore. Amazing innovations like technology that lets a monkey play computer games using only his mind, satellites beaming internet to remote parts of the world, and falling cancer death rates.

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