Category Archives: Happiness
A bar of chocolate, a long soak in the bath, a snooze in the middle of the afternoon, a leisurely stroll in the park. These are the things that make us the most happy, according to new research from The University of Nottingham. Happiness Comes Cheap — Even for Millionaires
An amazing story, Aicuna is Not an Albino Town It is the same message that she had made us read—the one by Carlo Brero, a nearly eighty-year-old Italian who, on September 28, 2006, bade his farewell to La Casa with these words, in Spanish: “I came to this town to find albino genes and I [...]
Some of the most interesting articles published are not accessible to the average reader, hidden behind the subscriber walls of very expensive trade journals. In the Washington Post, Shankar Vendatam writes about one such study – Is Great Happiness Too Much of a Good Thing? But according to the new study, led by University of [...]
LifeTwo, a new site about midlife improvement, is getting happy this week with a series of articles and exercises over seven days on how to become happier. So even if you think you are already happy, if you do the exercises over seven days, you can get even happier quickly. Wesley Hein is basing [...]
You know I really like this new generation of people between 13 and 24. They’ve got their heads on straight. Family is Key to Happiness, NOT Money and Sex Says New Study of Youth
– One of the biggest hurdles toward advancing the virtues of a chaste lifestyle is the widely accepted dichotomy between the notion that people who engage in wanton sex are mentally healthy and ‘sexually liberated,’ and the idea that people who abstein are ‘sexually repressed’ and only refrain due to some unresolved neurosis.  Eden brilliantly illustrates how what is commonly defined as ‘liberation’ is really a kind of enslavement, since in order to participate in this lifestyle, one has to set up all sorts of emotional and psychological barricades, the likes of which, she reports from experience, are very difficult to overcome.
– The average Briton, for example, is photographed 300 times per day as he goes about his normal, humdrum existence — The assault on freedom in Britain in the name of social welfare is an illustration of something that the American founding fathers understood, but that is not very congenial to the temper of our times: that in the long run, only a population that strives for virtue (with at least a degree of success) will be able to maintain its freedom….  One of the destructive consequences of the spread of sociological modes of thought is that it has transferred the notion of virtue from individuals to social structures, and in so doing has made personal striving for virtue (as against happiness) not merely unnecessary but ridiculous and even bad, insofar as it diverted attention from the real task at hand, that of creating the perfect society: the society so perfect, as T S Eliot put it, that no one will have to be good.
I guarantee you, they have made some howling mistakes if, like me, they were in college in the ’70s and ’80s….  Some are going to try to take your money, but the really clever ones are going to tempt you to throw your life away.
