Whales, Wanderers, Gretel, Dragons, Scallops and Gaffers. Now that’s a nice cross section of our world in the news this week!

There is a growing awareness that focusing on tragedy and despair in our daily news cycle is not only an empirically unbalanced representation of the truth, but it is also harmful to the prospects of solving the problems we do actually face by creating despondency and a sense of zero agency.