Entries tagged with happiness

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Interesting Links for 07-11-2024

1. America Defeats America - The Onion: (tags:USA politics satire )
2. South Korea is having social issues: (tags:society Korea women doom )
3. Because drama attracts more people I rarely see happy relationship things. It's delightful to see examples of couples being in deeply in love.: (tags:love happiness relationships )
4. Some positive results from the 2024 elections: (tags:USA elections GoodNews )
5. I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right: (tags:games review )
6. New technology allows you to look like anyone, in video, in realtime.: (tags:video faces lighting Technology )
7. How are people reacting to the Trump election (broken down by age and gender): (tags:polls usa politics )
8. Why some people only get mild Covid, flu and colds: (tags:pandemic disease inflammation immune_system colds flu )

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Interesting Links for 13-05-2024

1. Terry Pratchett On Trans Folk: (tags:transgender terrypratchett )
2. What's the difference between the British and Finnish welfare systems?: (tags:welfare UK Finland )
3. Wes Streeting explains why Labour are fine with starving children: (tags:Labour children welfare poverty OhForFucksSake )
4. What happened to the Great Library of Alexandria?: (tags:library history )
5. 30,000 rare oysters being reintroduced to Firth of Forth: (tags:Scotland seafood nature )
6. Small nuclear reactors don't add up as a viable energy source: (tags:nuclearpower economics )
7. Internet use is linked to higher wellbeing: (tags:happiness internet )
8. Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House: (tags:economics usa republicans democrats politics )
9. The Aurora Borealis from Calton Hill, Edinburgh.: (tags:edinburgh auroraborealis photos )
10. Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet': (tags:whales speech language )
11. Have no doubt: we are at war with Russia: (tags:russia war )

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Interesting Links for 02-11-2023

1. A Jewish woman finds that staff at The Guardian are about as compassionate as you'd expect: (tags:Jews guardian Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )
2. Latest Long Covid research update: (tags:Pandemic )
3. Giant white stag made of boulders re-emerges on Aberdeenshire hill: (tags:Scotland deer viaDanielDWilliam art )
4. Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations: (tags:mathematics communication doctors )
5. The Family Recipes That Live On in Cemeteries: (tags:death recipe )
6. City of Edinburgh Council set to declare housing emergency: (tags:housing edinburgh )
7. Autumn colours in Scotland's woodlands, parks and streets: (tags:autumn scotland photos )
8. Religious people have the most positive experiences. People in less religious countries have the most positive experiences. What a fascinating contradiction.: (tags:religion experience happiness )
9. BT are going to remove 85 phone kiosks from Edinburgh, clearing up a bunch of vandalised eyesores.: (tags:edinburgh phones )
10. "I'm only going to have sober sex - even one drink can ruin it": (tags:sex alcohol )

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Interesting Links for 21-08-2023

1. West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming: (tags:atheism religion USA law prison viaSwampers )
2. English Chess Federation will not exclude trans women: (tags:LGBT chess UK viaPatrickHadfield )
3. The ecological impact of wolf reintroduction to Britain.: (tags:wolves ecology viaDanielDWilliam )
4. Why does global warming lead to both droughts and flooding?: (tags:globalwarming disaster flooding drought )
5. Artists have forgotten how to draw: (tags:art education drawing )
6. Saying Hello To Your Neighbors Linked to Higher Wellbeing, but With Limits: (tags:happiness health community psychology )
7. Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff: (tags:funny video jokes )
8. I am really delighted by how well Rick Astley has done recently. (Here pulled into an impromptu collaboration with the Foo Fighters): (tags:music rickroll video viaDanielDWilliam )

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Interesting Links for 12-03-2023

1. The Daylight Saving Time Mess Just Won't Go Away: (tags:light time USA Europe )
2. Money does buy happiness after all (up to at least 500k): (tags:money happiness psychology viaNancyLebov )
3. Do refugees have to stay in the first safe country they reach?: (tags:refugee asylum FactCheck UK )

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Interesting Links for 18-01-2023

1. The Parliamentary Inquiry into English Childcare is looking for feedback. If you're in England then have your say on the state of childcare: (tags:children UK childcare )
2. Brexit has created shortage of 330,000 workers in UK: (tags:UK work migration Doom Europe )
3. What was life like for a poor family in London in 1900?: (tags:life history family poverty uk )
4. Edinburgh council starts taking work back from private contractors to improve quality of service and conditions for staff: (tags:edinburgh work outsourcing )
5. Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies: (tags:ai images copyright )
6. What measurement system does the UK use? (ALL OF THEM!): (tags:measurement UK funny video )
7. How MPs voted on blocking Scotland's gender reform bill (Labour whipped to abstain): (tags:UK voting )
8. A look at the arguments the UK government has put forward for blocking Scotland's gender reform act: (tags:Scotland UK law LGBT transgender viaDanielDWilliam )
9. What if you could be nudged to do the right thing? (Read on beyond the fake research writeup to the short story): (tags:scifi behaviour psychology happiness augmentedreality )

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Interesting Links for 27-09-2022

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Interesting Links for 05-08-2022

1. The many levels of racism: (tags:racism ontology )
2. Behind a nice conceit and good packaging, the Mr Men and Little Miss books are very, very bad: (tags:books children )
3. Turning off the UK's analogue phone system is proving harder than they thought: (tags:uk phones )
4. Putin is recruiting prisoners from Russian jails to fight on frontline in Ukraine: (tags:russia ukraine war prison )
5. Edinburgh North Bridge to remain closed until 2025 after discovery of 'previously concealed' issues: (tags:Edinburgh bridge )
6. How to really change someone's mind: (tags:belief communication viaDanielDWilliam )
7. The monkeypox situation keeps getting worse - here's why: (tags:monkey pandemic vaccination doom viaDanielDWilliam )
8. Playing action video games boosts brain activity and decision-making skills: (tags:videogames games psychology )
9. Apple retaliated against women who complained about rape, assault, and harrassment: (tags:apple rape harrassment assault OhForFucksSake )
10. Who knew that watching fences being knitted would be so soothing: (tags:video )
11. Summers are getting so hot in Florida that turtles there are mostly born female: (tags:florida usa globalwarming turtle gender )
12. Scottish prosecutors angered by US criticism of record on child slavery: (tags:scotland children slavery )
13. It's lovely to see sheer joy in playing with technology: (tags:Technology weather viaSwampers touchscreen happiness )
14. What happens to Russian soldiers who refuse to continue fighting in Ukraine?: (tags:ukraine russia military war viaDanielDWilliam )

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Interesting Links for 14-06-2022

1. What things tend to lead to happiness?: (tags:happiness psychology )
2. 1 in 5 US adults have Long Covid: (tags:pandemic health usa )
3. Why can't we remember being born or our first words?: (tags:language memory babies children )
4. Majority Of Northern Ireland Politicians Reject UK's Protocol Plan "In Strongest Possible Terms": (tags:UK NorthernIreland trade Europe politics )
5. Whole bunch of homophobia in the adoption system: (tags:LGBT adoption children UK OhForFucksSake gay )
6. Europe's Plan to Quit Russian Fuel Plunges Pakistan Into Darkness: (tags:Europe Russia fuel oil Doom Pakistan Ukraine war viaDanielDWilliam )
7. Healthy human brains are hotter than previously thought, exceeding 40C in the core: (tags:brain temperature )
8. Europe is prepping for a trade war with the UK that no-one wants: (tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
9. Neil Patrick Harris Boards Doctor Who: (tags:drwho )
10. BA.4, BA.5 rise in Europe; officials sound alarm of COVID-19 surge to come: (tags:pandemic doom )

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Interesting Links for 11-05-2022