12 Things Happy People Do Differently

by Laurie McAndish King on December 29, 2011

Jacob Sokol of Sensophy writes: Studies conducted by positivity psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky point to 12 things happy people do differently to increase their levels of happiness.  These are things that we can start doing today to feel the effects of more happiness in our lives.  (Check out her book The How of Happiness.) Read Sokol’s post 12 Things Happy People Do Differently.

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Happy Thanksgiving

by Laurie McAndish King on November 22, 2010

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Eagle-cam in Northern Iowa

July 8, 2010

Another good eagle nest-cam—this one is in northern Iowa on the Mississippi River. Thanks to Bill Hopkins for this link.

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Scientific Feng Shui and your Bed

July 8, 2010

A Scientific American article, “Left-sided Cancer: Blame your bed and TV?,” suggests that “as we sleep on our coil-spring mattresses, we are in effect sleeping on an antenna that amplifies the intensity of the broadcast FM/TV radiation. Asleep on these antennas, our bodies are exposed to the amplified electromagnetic radiation for a third of our […]

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Brain Chemistry or a Trip to Heaven?

May 25, 2010

Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes about near-death experiences for NPR. Originally posted May 22, 2009: “We’ve all heard the stories about near-death experiences: the tunnel, the white light, the encounter with long-dead relatives now looking very much alive.” “Scientists have cast a skeptical eye on these accounts. They say that these feelings and visions are simply […]

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Leach’s Storm-petrel is not Immortal

May 21, 2010
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You read it here first: Leach’s Storm-petrel is not immortal. I came across this fascinating bit of information on Wikipedia. It has not been vetted, but it was interesting enough that I wanted to mention it here. When I get time, I’ll do more research. Meanwhile, this is an excerpt from Wikipedia’s entry for Oceanodroma […]

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Chimps Use Tools for Sex!

May 5, 2010

The New York Times published an enlightening article by John Tierney about the fact that chimpanzees have been found to use tools (nothing new) for sex (oh boy!): The human ego has never been quite the same since the day in 1960 that Jane Goodall observed a chimpanzee feasting on termites near Lake Tanganyika. After […]

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Do Chimps Understand Death?

April 30, 2010
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The Atlantic published an article by Edward Tenner describing similarities between humans and non-human primates in responding to death: “The Los Angeles Times reports new evidence of non-human primates’ understanding of life and death: “Some chimpanzees seem to grieve similarly to humans in the face of a fellow chimp’s death, two new studies have found, […]

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Peregrine Falcon Nestcam in San Francisco

April 29, 2010

Here’s another nestcam; this one on the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group website: “Falcons arrived in early February to begin courtship at this nest box on the PG&E headquarters building in downtown San Francisco. PG&E has been a terrific host to the birds since we established the first nest camera on the building in […]

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California Butterflies

April 29, 2010

Here are some sites with photos and information about butterflies and moths: Michael L. Charters’ Butterflies and Moths of Southern California Butterflies and Moths of North America, which “includes dynamic distribution maps, photographs, species accounts, and species checklists for each county in the U.S. and each state in Mexico. BAMONA data are updated regularly and […]

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