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They’ve done a lot of studies about being second best. Silver medalists in the Olympics aren’t happy campers. And neither am I. Princeton’s happy though. Ignorance is bliss...

Author: By Elihu Yale, | Title: It Sucks to be Me | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

Matrimonial Bliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2004 Election: Winners & Losers: Nov. 15, 2004 | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

Womack, who holds the Bliss chair in Latin American history and economics, wrote in an e-mail Friday that “what’s happening in Sudan—as in some other parts of the world—is by all accounts awful.” But he said that “it’s not genocide, and it doesn’t threaten continental, or much less intercontinental, warfare...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs Pledge To Back Sudan Divestment | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...other hand, there’s something delicious about getting your hands on a fact. Robert Nozick had a famous conundrum where he asked people, “If you could go inside a happiness machine and you’d experience a life of utter bliss, but you’d really be laying inside a machine with your brain all wired up, would you want to go into the machine?” I don’t know anybody who’s ever done that study, but I would suggest that there would be plenty...

Author: By Kevin J. Feeney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Future Man | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

That kind of stuff makes you realize that life in the wireless city of the future isn't necessarily unmitigated bliss. Information is a two-edged sword: it can empower you, but it can also mess with your privacy. And there's such a thing as too much info. Stick a wi-fi-enabled camera on a streetlamp, stick a solar panel on the camera for power, and suddenly you have got cheap, instant 24-hr. streaming-video surveillance. "How many cities wouldn't want that?" Stalter asks rhetorically. "So Blade Runner is happening." (I think he means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City That Cut the Cord | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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