Word: interestingness
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Cohen and his colleagues have also been studying how social relationships and positive emotions can impact lifespan. Their work builds on a famous 2001 University of Kentucky study of aging nuns, which found that the more positive emotions the nuns had expressed in brief autobiographies written 60 years earlier at...
What's interesting is that those two different kinds of strategies can either work well or less well depending on where it is that you're trying to navigate. There are some situations in which trying to navigate using the cardinal directions is dooming yourself - [think of] cities with a...
You say the way that cities, offices and homes are designed can really influence people. Do you think that their design contributes a lot to people's happiness and even their success? Absolutely. Especially in North America, I think we tend to equate square feet with happiness. We need a...
Facebook has a history of adding features that face large initial resistance, but come to be regarded by users as indispensable. College students were uneasy about professional networks—and adults—gaining access to Facebook after its early users began graduating from college, and were mildly indignant...
Can you think of any other interesting, educational experiences here in Afghanistan? Some years ago I went to a little village called Kantiwa, up in Kunar province. It's way up there: there is no road, several hours from the closest road, and we were looking for a bad guy...