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...Also pertinent is the theory - backed by so-called positive psychologists - that human beings have an inherited base level of happiness that fluctuates only during periods of change. In his book The Happiness Hypothesis, for example, Jonathan Haidt, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, discusses the opposing case studies of winning the lottery and becoming paralyzed. He writes, "It's better to win the lottery than to break your neck, but not by as much as you'd think ... Within a year, lottery winners and paraplegics have both (on average) returned most of the way to their...
...handful of Cabot residents who descended the stone steps to their ground-level dining hall were told to trek over to their neighboring house instead. Something about a drainage blockage, contaminated food, and water, water, everywhere...
...McCain in 2008. You show a significant increase in porn use in places where people agree with statements like “AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior.” What do you think explains this?BGE: On a zip code level, most of the key results continue to hold. That tells me that this isn’t as likely to be a minority fighting against a majority that is suppressing their consumption of adult entertainment. It seems to imply that people in conservative places –– that...
Adams has long stood out for its restrictive dining policies, though FlyBy has a pretty good record of getting our food there come dinner time. But last night, the House with the convenient, if dimly lit, dining hall took interhouse restrictions to a new level. The absurdity after the jump...
...need to think about how we can do things differently but at the same level or better,” Zeckhauser said...