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...researching his new book, The Geography of Bliss. Equal parts travel memoir, self-help screed and reportage, the book takes something everyone has wondered - Does where you live determine how happy you are? - and uses it to plumb the psyches of nations that are statistically the happiest places on earth: countries such as Iceland, Qatar and Switzerland that "possess, in spades ... money, pleasure, spirituality, family, and chocolate." In a year of traveling, Weiner visited not only well-adjusted locales, but also places where people say life is just so-so and one where the people are truly miserable...
...really. The idea for my mom doing the forward was to find the least objective person on the planet earth to defend someone. And a parent talking about their child, there’s no objectivity, to say, ‘Well, yeah, they probably had a point in dumping you.’ They’re just like ‘I’m your mother and I don’t have to be fair.’ So I thought it’d be funny if she wrote from the most biased point...
Knoll said that differences in size and distance from the sun caused Earth and Mars to become distinct early in their lives...
...About 3.8 billion years ago—the age of the sedimentary rocks collected by Opportunity—Earth had oceans, life, and an atmosphere capable of sustaining greenhouse warmth but without oxygen,” said Knoll, who added that the calculations on ancient water activity on Mars were performed by Harvard postdoctoral fellow Nicholas J. Tosca. “Mars was dry, acidic, and at least mildly oxidizing...
Meanwhile, the Mars Science Laboratory is scheduled to leave Earth in the fall of 2009 and land on Mars in the summer of 2010. According to Joy A. Crisp, a Mars Science Laboratory scientist, it has capabilities that Spirit and Opportunity did not have, like the ability to analyze drilled powders from rocks for organic compounds...