Olga Khazan argues that always gunning for the best option may leave us with a feeling of regret — there’s always something better on the horizon. So, instead, be able to be happy with something that’s “good enough.”
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Discover the Secrets of Happy Families, with Bruce Feiler Author Bruce Feiler lists the three major family shifts of the past generation: shifting definitions, working women, and a more intent […]
Popping a Tylenol may do more than just alleviate that headache you’ve been suffering through; it may also be a potent solution for numbing emotions.
Author Bruce Feiler lists the three major family shifts of the past generation and explains how exploring these shifts led him to write his latest book.
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The best way to become better divorced parents is to work together to redefine what it means to be a family.
Why would anyone work on the weekend? Turns out some people get a productivity high.
When children believe that telling the truth will make their parents happy, they become less likely to lie.
Clickbait and viral content may be fascinating or annoying depending on your perspective as an e-consumer, but to internet researchers the phenomenon is the stuff of scientific wonder.
Cinco de Mayo is not, as many Americans assume, Mexico’s Independence Day. It’s not even an important holiday south of the border. Instead, its modern roots can be traced to Mexican-Americans in the 1960s and the opportunism of wily beer distributors.
Students may need to sleep on a lesson before they are able to fully comprehend and apply the new information they’ve learned.
Happy families combat the stress of the modern age by always adapting. The system out of which this adaptation occurs is the weekly family meeting.
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Moans, groans, and gripes release stress hormones in the brain.
“They f**k you up, your mum and dad,” poet Philip Larkin wrote in the late work “This Be the Verse.” “They may not mean to, but they do./ They fill you with the faults they had/ And add some extra, just for you.” Larkin kidded that those lines would be his best remembered, a guess not too far off 30 years after his death. Where others see in those lines a perfect portrait of the sour, sad curmudgeon poet, in the new biography Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, James Booth sees something different. “The poem’s sentiment is sad, but the poem is full of jouissance,” Booth argues. “This must bid fair to be the funniest serious English poem of the 20th century.” Likewise, Larkin — target of posthumous charges of racism, misogyny, and assorted cruelties — could lay claim to being the “funniest serious” English poet of the 20th century. Booth, who knew and worked with Larkin, shows the sweet, happy side of the sour, sad poet and makes a strong case for learning to love Larkin again, if not for the first time.
The ability to send an emotion — a feeling — to someone a world away may not be a thing of the future anymore. Researchers have found they can stimulate different emotions by blowing air onto certain parts of your hand.
Compared to a human lifetime, the Universe is ancient.But even a single year holds important changes. “We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we […]
Don’t believe any caller who claims they work for the IRS. The IRS will never call or email you. The best course of action you can take is to spread the word to help stop the success of these scams.
Nonconformists have a certain allure that attract both men and women, according to a recent study, but it has its limits.
Happy families play together. That’s the basis of why it’s important to travel together. Author Bruce Feiler walks through the best ways for families to explore their world without succumbing to stress.
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How much homework should students do each night? One group of researcher says 70 minutes strikes the perfect balance.
Happy Pi Day! We’ve compiled some fun facts from across the internet in commemoration of 3.14.15. And just in case you’re curious, the world’s most famous irrational number boasts a “1” as its millionth digit.
“There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.” The author and biochemist was born 2 January 1920.
Everything that makes Twitter great also makes it difficult to monetize. As investors flee, the days may be numbered for the Twitter we know and love.
Are you Homo Curiosus or Homo Definitus?
Changing up your routine by walking backwards may be enough to boost creativity, although it may also lead to a decrease in productivity.
Jeff Reeves over at MarketWatch says a stronger dollar will hurt investors in 2015.
It’s something of a cultural cliché, but counting your blessings is a great way to obtain perspective on a bad day.
You’re worth sticking up for.
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
It’s all about how seriously you take the concept of moral duty.
Psychedelics are showing promising results in helping a wide variety of ailments. But can they also result in addiction?