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Instead of outsourcing your company’s brand evangelism you can just treat your employees well. Happy employees will advocate for your brand for free.

A 29-year-old tutor faces felony charges after allegedly hacking into a California high school’s network to change students’ grades. The maximum sentence is 16 years in prison. 

Happiness researchers have confirmed the existence of the midlife crisis beyond popular myth, and they have developed theories for why our contentment with life follows a “U-curve”.

The roots of the word “Christmas” involve two kinds of liberation (of and from the masses).

Classroom studies indicate that taking notes with pen and paper helps students to reform lectures in their own words, allowing them to learn and comprehend the material.

The key to sticking with your exercise goals is to learn to derive satisfaction from working out. Mindfulness can offer an assist to those not innately fueled by fitness desire.

If you’re not getting enough sleep at night you’re not going to be as productive or happy in your life. Try to make the decision to remedy that this new year.

We all want to be happy. Some have even said that achieving happiness is the goal of life. But we wouldn’t look to a technology company for such wisdom, would we?

A San Francisco startup (what else?) is looking to make the home-buying process much simpler, leveraging data to find a fair market price as soon as a house is listed.

From 1950 to 1980, corporate profits accounted for six percent of nation’s gross domestic product. Since 1980, that amount has doubled to twelve percent.

Ambition, goal-setting, and I are awkwardly dating. 

The Woman in White is a Victorian mystery novel containing a “songline” of a chance slice of London.

It’s tough to hear, but a shorter work week may not improve your job-life satisfaction. A recent study shows that there needs to be more than just a government reform to change office culture–corporations need to toe the line.

Say “I still love you, but I’m furious” with the adorable, contemptuous Japanese concept of the “Revenge Lunchbox” (Shikaeshi Bento). “If you prick us do we not bleed? If you […]

“Daddy, why do all the players have dark skin?” When my eldest daughter posed this question one football Saturday six years ago, she had no concept of race in mind […]

Romance and reason are becoming estranged bedfellows (too bad—they were a cute couple). Does love’s logic now add up? Or is love like “happiness,” a low-resolution word (unhelpful in seeing key distinctions). Food for thought on love’s unrequited logic…

Is everything astonishingly simple, though? Or is this a grandiose claim that falls flat when confronted with the evidence? “My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we […]

Preschoolers demonstrate stronger academic achievement when lessons about caring and mindfulness are integrated into the traditional curriculum, say educational researchers in Wisconsin.

Continuous advances in digital technology have made the world more efficient than ever before. Yet many of us suffer the stress of simply maintaining a social and professional life.

The power of positive thought has a double edge: on one hand it helps us cope when we’re faced with difficult circumstances, but if not checked with a dose of realism, it can set us up for defeat.

There are some weak arguments against marriage equality. Then there’s this one. 

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied,” said John Stuart Mill.

Americans are brought up on the idea that if someone works hard enough, they can move up in society. When in reality this kind of social mobility—a rags-to-riches story—is hard to come by.

The founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post explains why adjusting your perception of success is vital for achieving a healthy work-life balance.

People with extremely sunny attitudes find it difficult to empathize with people who are recounting a negative experience, according to a study recently published at PLOS ONE. 

A workshop in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. helps equip children with the necessary survival knowledge in case they’re separated from parents and friends.

Numerous studies have identified a link connecting feelings of gratitude with happiness, good health, and generosity.

For every Gravity Falls fan out there, this one’s for you. Images: me (L); Disney Channel / Alex Hirsch et al. (R). “Not man enough? NOT MAN ENOUGH? I have […]

The power (and peril) of habit.

Instead of returning anger with anger, Robert Thurman advocates the practice of lovingkindness, a translation of the Pali word mettā that is found in the original Buddhist texts.