Longevity and Happiness — Living in the Blue Zones
Globally there have been identified so called “blue zones”, places where people live in general for longer than in other areas on Earth or as my husband says “the places that have everything“.
Category: Superhappiness
Compulsory Well-Being: An interview with Will Davies
The UK government’s use of psychology has suddenly become controversial.
Different Molecular Profiles of Eudaimonic and Hedonic Happiness
Molecular biologic techniques have been employed to analyze happiness and the results distinguish between two forms of happiness at the molecular level.
Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas (1971) — Lost Transhumanist Classics
Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas (1971) by Jasia Reichardt is a lost and out of print masterwork of multimedia, interactive, and computer generated art that will be of interest to transhumanists.
Sense of Meaning and Purpose in Life Linked to Longer Lifespan
The findings raise the intriguing possibility that increasing well being could help to improve physical health.
Video Friday: David Pearce on H.G. Wells’ Utopia
Intuitively, one might indeed suppose that lifelong bliss would make us weak. Contrast, for instance, the Eloi with the Morlocks in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. In practice, the opposite is true. “That which does not crush me makes me...