Seriously, here’s how to buy happiness: In brief, research suggests that once you have enough income to live a comfortable and satisfying life, you’ll derive more happiness spending money on others than spending it on yourself. (See e.g. research by … Continue reading
A very funny bit from one of Ireland’s top comics: Link: http://youtu.be/6esyExLwnak Update 2017 June 4: This video ends with O’Briain starting to tell another story, one that’s even funnier, so here, belatedly, it is: Link: https://youtu.be/fSgpR71fM1Y by … Continue reading
People are easily scared: Links: http://youtu.be/QeEZigcZxd0 http://youtu.be/rgrr6b6Vt6M by … Continue reading
Link: http://youtu.be/7xi8sE3w538 by … Continue reading
When I run across video clips I think are interesting I often do so in a bunch, but rather than dump them all onto the blog at the same time I take advantage of a WordPress feature that lets me … Continue reading
OK, this is getting weird. I’m sure I put the embedding code here before… by … Continue reading
A physicist is allowed about five minutes to explain why some things are transparent to visible light: The basic idea is that when a photon is absorbed by a substance, an electron in the substance jumps from one energy level … Continue reading
In New Zealand the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been promoting pet adoptions by training rescued dogs to drive cars. They go very slowly, the cars are specially equipped, and they get a lot of human … Continue reading
Two days in a row I left out the dang video… by … Continue reading
(I initially somehow managed to leave out the clip, which resulted in what was probably a funnier post than I’d intended…) by … Continue reading