Why does everything seem so terrible?

• Autores: Frank Swain
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3085, 2016, pág. 19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It's hard not to feel that July brought an unusual dump of bad headlines. Recent weeks have seen the televised deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling at the hands of the US authorities, police being killed in Dallas and Baton Rouge, terror attacks in Istanbul, Baghdad, Nice and Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, and other acts of violence in Germany and Japan. He watched these incidents unfold against a backdrop of heightened tension around the world, with deep divisions exposed by the UK's EU referendum, an attempted military coup in Turkey, and the US presidential election. Here, Swain talks about the perception of people on violence around the wor