Eric Zuesse The following is part of the Gallup Global Emotions 2022 report, which is “based on nearly 127,000 interviews with adults in 122 countries and areas in 2021 and early 2022.” Gallup’s accompanying article, “Global Study Reveals Most Workers Enjoy What They Do”, says: Many of the countries where the most workers enjoy what […]
As UK shoppers are forecast to spend £10bn in Black Friday sales this week, we’re encouraging people to ‘give stories, not stuff’ with a Positive News gift subscription. Here are 10 other inspiring alternatives to the Black Friday frenzy
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Last night I read a post off on a tangent by Jo Confino (at HuffPo), Environmental Destruction, Inequality And Loneliness. Why Capitalism Is Broken. Confino's piece is barely even about politics or policy at all.
On Friday, following a busy week of new product announcements for the biggest company in the world, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook delivered the commencement address at MIT’s graduation ceremony. Like his predecessor Steve Jobs, Cook described personal challenges that led him to the worldview he holds today.
The world's first museum for happiness will open in London after a successful crowdfunding campaign
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According to the recently released World Happiness Report, many of the happiest nations are those found in the Germanic portions of the world. One of these is the Netherlands.
But the Netherlands doesn’t just contain happy adults; it contains happy children as well, as author Rina Mae Acosta explains in an interview for MarketWatch. As Acosta sees it, there are several things which Dutch parents do which promote this happiness. Here are three of them.
The 2017 World Happiness Report, released yesterday to coincide with International Day of Happiness, names Norway the happiest country in the world. What lessons can we learn from the nations at the top of the table?
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Experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford, Elaine Fox, tells Lauren Razavi about her surprising research into the links between genes and happinessThe post Wired for happiness? How ‘risky’ genes could go either way appeared first on Positive News.
Despite all our material gains, unhappiness is one of humanity’s biggest challenges. The Happier World Conference, taking place in London this weekend, will explore how to bring more happiness, mindfulness and kindness into our livesThe post “What’s at a premium now is compassion. You can’t get that on Facebook” appeared first on Positive News.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave the University of Utah College of Health more than $700,000 to study mentions of food on Twitter to find out about Americans’ relationship with food. Guess what? Kale didn’t make the list; far from it, actually. [1]
Researchers, led by assistant professor Quynh Nguyen, collected 80 million tweets from 2015-2016, and found out that nearly 5% of them were about food. [2]
