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🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Author and vlogger John Green looks around the world and sees a lot of things that suck. But rather than giving in to despair, he's trying to develop a sense of hope. He says the most "punk rock" thing to do is tackle our problems head-on.
John embraces the motto: "Human beings can be good news!" In a live discussion with Dr Laurie, he explains that if we work together we can decrease the suck in the world and increase the awesome.
This live event marked the publication of John's new book Everything is Tuberculosis - which argues that TB is a global disease that we can conquer right now if we put in a little bit of combined effort.
Happiness Lab listeners have already raised tens of thousands of dollar to fight TB by donating to our appeal at GiveDirectly.org/tb.
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0:00.0 | Hey folks, Dr. Lori Santos here. |
0:02.3 | I want to tell you about a podcast you should check out. |
0:05.1 | It's called Climbing the Walls from Understood.org. |
0:09.0 | This six-part series investigates why women with ADHD have gone undiagnosed for so long, |
0:15.1 | and how that changed dramatically during the pandemic, |
0:18.2 | when the diagnosis of ADHD and women skyrocketed. |
0:21.9 | The show asks, why women? Why now? |
0:24.9 | And how has this huge underdiagnosis impacted women's mental health? |
0:29.2 | To listen to Climbing the Walls, search for Climbing the Walls in your podcast app. |
0:33.8 | That's Climbing the Walls. |
0:42.3 | Music That's Climbing the Walls. Pushkin. |
0:48.5 | Hey, Happiness Lab listeners. |
0:50.5 | On the last episode, I spoke to best-selling author John Green about his mission to get us talking about tuberculosis. |
0:56.8 | TB is a disease we've been able to successfully treat for decades, and yet millions of people still die because of it. |
1:03.2 | And that's partly because we won't hand over the relatively small amounts of money needed to pay for treatment. |
1:08.5 | John thinks that's a scandal. |
1:10.3 | And if you agree, we've launched |
1:11.6 | an appeal to help send any cash you can spare to give directly.org slash TB. That's give |
1:17.4 | directly.org slash TB. John's latest book, Everything is Tuberculosis, is all about this awful |
1:23.6 | disease that's shaped our world. But that disease won't go away until we put in some effort |
1:28.4 | to fight it properly. John asked me to help him out at a launch event for the book in New York. |
1:33.5 | And that's what you're about to hear. The evening started with John giving a short reading from |
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