Live while you are alive
A poll by Gallup and Healthways Global reports that Panama now has the world’s most positive and happy population, after 133,000 people from 135 countries were asked to rate their wellbeing in five categories: purpose, social, financial, community and physical. The Central American country topped four of the categories, with neighbour Costa Rica closely following …
If you attack the establishment long enough, they will make you a member of it. Art Buchwald, quoted in The Wall Street Journal I am still waiting.
So many Britons now reach their 100th birthdays that the “telegram team” at the Department for Work and Pensions has had to take on extra staff. For years, one civil servant was responsible for ensuring centenarians received a birthday card from the Queen; now, seven are needed. There are currently 14,000 people over 100 in …
Charles Darwin is accused of coming up with a theory that modern social scientists would give their eye teeth to have thought of – “facial feedback response theory”. One smile, he suggested, can create the same level of brain stimulation as finding twenty five thousand pounds sterling in your pocket. Facial feedback response theory, indeed. …
A Chinese city has recently created a pedestrian lane on a sidewalk for those who can’t leave their cellphones alone for long enough to avoid bumping into an old lady. This is great news and points up the fact that the Chinese are not only innovative but thoughtful of ordinary pedestrians. But very quickly this …
