Tony Martin’s list of reasons to be cheerfulIt’s not all doom and gloom, whingers. Tony Martin offers up ten everyday reasons to get a smile on your dial, from piercing the metal covering on an instant coffee tin to discovering a favourite new word.
Happiness
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The happiest places on Earth
GOOD graphs 30 years of information from the World Database of Happiness, showing which countries have gotten happier and sadder, and the major events that have affected nations’ moods.
What if policy was based on fun?
Should governments consider the growing body of research into what makes people actually happy when creating policy? Is it better to be rich and miserable like Americans, or poor but content like Nigerians?
A green country is a happy country
Apparently, money really doesn’t buy happiness: the happiest countries are those that protect their environment and biodiversity, offering their citizens the prospect of a sustainable future.
The economics of happiness
H = f (P, Y, X, ε) — that’s the formula for predicting people’s happiness as a function of their income, the public good and other observable data. And according to Arik Levinson, happiness data that can be used to work out the monetary value of public goods.
Forget GDP, we rate 102 out of 143 countries on the Happy Planet Index
As Australia again begins the quarterly festival of GDP worship, isn’t there a better measure of national success? asks Charles Berger.
The first rule of Fight Right Club: “I’m sorry”
A lover not a fighter? Here’s 23 phrases from Slate to help you ‘fight right’ in an argument with your loved ones. Hopefully you’ll emerge victorious.
The happiest day on the internet
New software searches blogs and tweets in the US to gauge the ‘happiness’ level of society. So far, President Barack Obama was responsible for the two happiest days ever.
Cheer up, Portugal!
Only 46% of Portuguese are satisfied with their lives, according to an EU study. Why so glum?
What’s the secret to happiness?
The Harvard Study of Adult Development has studied the lives of 268 men from birth until death, with some very illuminating results.
