If you’re reading this blog post today, the overwhelming odds are that you didn’t win the record-breaking lottery over the weekend. Americans spent $1.5 billion in their magical thinking quest to win the jackpot, fantasizing about how they would happil…
Continue ReadingBeautiful illustration of the U-curve of happiness — We start out feeling “Everything is Exciting” during childhood, then live pressures and challenges of life drag down happiness until we gain the freedom to have “more sex than anyone is comfortable talking about.”
Continue ReadingThe New York Times recently asked Gallup to come up with a statistical composite of the “happiest person” in the United States based on characteristics that most closely correlate with happiness according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Gallup’s answer: He’s a tall, Asian-American, observant Jew who is at least 65 and married, has children, lives in […]
Continue Reading— Mickey Rooney tells Senate panel to stop elder abuse now. Watch video of the testimony here. [CNN] — Background checks coming to a nursing home near you soon? “Nursing Home Workers Criminal Pasts Found” [The New York Times] — After dissing FightAging! yesterday as a wingnut anti-aging site I’m going to give them […]
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