The United Nations present their first World Happiness Report

04/04/12

http://www.mindful.org/news/united-nations-publish-first-world-happiness-report

The report reflects a new worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and absence of misery as criteria for government policy.

Published by the Earth Institute, the report reviews the state of happiness in the world today, and shows how the new science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness.

Who is happy?

By David G. Myers' and Ed Dienerz l Hope College and 'University of Illinois. Aflood of new studies explores people 's subjective well-being ..., Jan 1995

http://www.davidmyers.org/davidmyers/assets/Who.is.Happy.pdf

Why It's So Hard to Be Happy

The pursuit of happiness drives much of what we do, but achieving it always seems just out of reach. By Michael Wiederman, Scientific American Mind  | January 30, 2007 | 4

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science.

By D'AVID H. FREEDMAN, THE aTLANTIC MAGAZINE, 2010

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/

Going beyond X and Y

Babies born with mixed sex organs often get immediate surgery. New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should force a rethinking about sex assignment and gender identity.

By Sally Lehrman  | , Scientific American, May 2007

A Thousand Names for Joy, Byron Katie & Stephen Mitchell

A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are [Hardcover]

Byron Katie (Author), Stephen Mitchell (Author)

This book is a portrait of the awakened mind in action. It is also Byron Katie’s response to the Tao Te Ching (pronounced Dow De Jing), the great Chinese classic that has been called the wisest book ever written.