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What Makes Us Happy?

allkindsoftime — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:23:50 -0800

Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. What Makes Us Happy?

Greenland's Ice will get thicker before it gets thinner. Or is it the other way around?

b1tr0t — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:39:31 -0800

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Greenland?

MDMA Study Botched

brittney — Sun, 07 Sep 2003 12:50:26 -0800

A widely-reported study that showed recreational use of MDMA to cause Parkinson's diesase was found to be botched and has now been retracted. The results were not skewed, the margin of error wasn't miscalculated--the primates were given the wrong drug.

Web Project Seeks to Digitize Religious Images for Theological Libraries

turbanhead — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:57:23 -0800

Web Project Seeks to Digitize Religious Images for Theological Libraries The American Theological Library Association's Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative aims to create a large database of religious images to spare research librarians the expense of digitizing documents that other institutions have already scanned

stbalbach — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:46:23 -0800

What do big city women want.. men with money