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...that laughter is contagious, and now, it turns out, so is happiness. Happiness is not an individual but a collective phenomenon, according to a new study released online Thursday in the British Medical Journal. The study, which followed almost 5,000 people over 20 years, found that happiness can spread through three degrees of separation within social networks, meaning that the happiness of your friend, your friend’s friend, and even your friend’s friend’s friend can infect you with a good mood. “Happiness not only spreads from person...
Influenza is a disease of modernity: the faster people travel around the world, the easier it is for the virus to spread. There's no evidence of influenza among Native Americans until after Europeans visited North America. Pandemic outbreaks occur about once every hundred years, although it's hard track outbreaks that occurred before the 18th century due to incomplete medical records. The disease hits big cities first - because that's where people generally travel - and then spreads to surrounding areas. The last major pandemic occurred in 1918 when an Influenza A strain jumped from birds to humans and killed...
...discovery. Remarkably, in a security-obsessed era typified by Bloombergian, antiseptic New York and Big Brother London, people are leaning more and more toward experimentation and ingenuity. As a result of the commercialization of Disco, too many good ideas aren’t seen to fruition, and with the spread of AIDS in later decades, many of those who could have kept innovating passed. These new artists mark a resurgence in the belief that there’s still room for innovation, that we aren’t fated to a future of cut-and-paste musical wizardry and sentimentality...
...Frederick, then down at Felicity, then up at Frederick again. She could tell it was too late.“I will not abandon you in your time of sin,” she told Frederick huskily, and lay down next to Felicity.Frederick stood above them, his legs spread wide like a colossus, and began to unbuckle his trousers. He heard the drumbeat of anticipation in his ears. Too late, he realized what the drumbeat was: the sound of hoofbeats.“Onward Zalathal!” cried The Stable Boy, barefoot and shirtless, as he and the stallion...
...would hope that my campaign would inspire people the way Hwang inspired me, to spread awareness of how vile the UC is,” Waite said...