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Pinterest CEO Bill Ready talking in a conference, wearing a blue suit with a green background

Pinterest CEO Backs Social Media Ban for Kids Under 16

The CEO likened social media companies to Big Tobacco.

Social Media Ece Yildirim

Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. to Drop in Global Happiness Ranking

The UN report cites factors like loneliness among Americans under 40.

Tech News Matt Novak

WandaVision‘s Trip Down Memory Lane Holds a Fascinating Mirror Up to Its Audience

The latest episode of WandaVision provided, with the little help of a magical handbrake, the chance that three-and-a-bit Avengers movies and a side of Captain America: Civil War failed to take: We finally learned what had made Wanda Maximoff who she is. But in Agatha Harkness, we learned something of ourselves in the process. Perhaps…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Goats Do Not Like Your Grumpy Face

It turns out goats really do know that you’re trouble when you walk in. These domestic animals can distinguish human facial expressions, and prefer a pleasant smile to a disgruntled frown, according to new research. “This is the first evidence that shows goats are capable of visually discriminating facial expressions of a very different species,…

Biology Jessica Boddy

Does Your Community Have These Happy Neighborhood Traits?

Certain aspects of a neighborhood, including its ethnic diversity and the availability of public transit, are associated with better reported well-being among residents, according to a study published Wednesday in PLOS One. Researchers used data from an existing survey called the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. From 2010 to 2012, more than 300,000 Americans were asked about…

Health Ed Cara

Married People Are Even More Annoyingly Happy Than We Thought

If it weren’t already vomit-inducing to see your social feeds taken over by newly married friends’ smug selfies and declarations of love, a pair of new studies released this week will only add to the resentment: Married couples who stay together ultimately end up happier and healthier than everyone else. One study, published in the…

Health Ed Cara

The Rat Race Gets a Literal Interpretation in This All-Too-Relatable Animated Short

Steve Cutts’ jaunty yet cutting short Happiness imagines the big-city rat race—literally embodied by rats. There’s a suffocatingly overcrowded subway, frenzied shoppers stampeding through a sale, and a traffic jam so apocalyptic that no amount of drink or drugs can make everything OK. That doesn’t mean our heroic lead rodent won’t try, though. We support…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Disney World Now Makes Toddlers Get Fingerprint Scans

The Most Magical Place on Earth has started scanning the fingers of three-year-olds in an effort to prevent ticket fraud, because you can never be too careful about tiny babies that have only just started communicating properly. The Orlando Sentinel reports that children between the ages of three and nine will now have their fingers…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Cute animation shows the guide to what makes people happy

Money. Cars. Sex. Accomplishment. Things. They all make us happy. But drugs and alcohol and addiction all feed the dopamine meter too. So what truly makes us happy? Panoply made this animation detailing a guide to happiness and it’s a fun watch, just to see the cool animation. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

Sploid Casey Chan

Take This Quiz to Measure Your Happiness Scientifically

Chances are you’ve taken a test that measures your happiness and well-being. But let’s be frank: very few of these tests are actually rooted in science, and rarely do they provide any kind of meaningful advice. Now there is a new free online quiz by a nonprofit organization called ClearerThinking that seeks to overcome both…

Tech News George Dvorsky

More Reasons To Marry Your Best Friend

A recent investigation into the causal relationship between marriage and life satisfaction found that people who regard their partner as their best friend derive more satisfaction from their marriages than others. Photo Credit: Nathan Congleton via flickr | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 How much more life satisfaction are we talking? According to the study, which was…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Charts Show When We’re At Our Most Miserable During the Year

Our moods ebb and flow with the seasons. They also change quite dramatically over the course of a single week. These visualizations show exactly when we can expect to be depressed, anxious, and stressed. These visualizations were put together by Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post, and he calls them the index of misery. Using…

io9 George Dvorsky

These Charts Reveal Whether More Income Really Would Make You Happier

Does having more money automatically make people happier? We know a little about how that works (and doesn’t work) on an individual level, but what happens when we’re talking not just about individuals, but about the happiness of entire countries? Pew has released the results of a new global survey looking at levels of life…

io9 Ria Misra

Why are materialists less happy?

The latest word on how to be happy: be more appreciative of the things you have. Newly published research out of Baylor University finds materialistic people are less happy in large part because of their lack of gratitude. Top Image via Forbes via Driving “As in past research, we found that materialism was negatively associated…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

One of the best habits for happy living may also be the least practiced

A recently conducted survey of 5,000 people identifies a strong link between self-acceptance and happiness. The problem? Self-acceptance is not something most of us are in the habit of practicing. Photo Credit: Daniel Y. Go via flickr The survey, which was conducted by the charity Action for Happiness, in collaboration with Do Something Different, asked…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Is your state the most miserable in the nation?

Sorry, West Virginians, the news isn’t good. Gallup has put out its annual “state of the states” poll of over 178,000 people, looking at our collective sense of well-being as bounded within our state lines. The big winner in all this? The Dakotas, that great paradise to the North, famous for gifting us Mount Rushmore,…

io9 Ria Misra

Tears of joy and tears of sadness look different under the microscope

We can cry because we’re happy. We can cry because we’re sad. We can cry because we’re cutting onions. We can cry just because we need to cry. They’re all completely different emotions… but are they different tears? Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher wanted to find out in her series The Topography of Tears. She put dried…

Sploid Casey Chan

Can Technology Ever Make Us Truly Happy?

Humans are clever: what sets us apart from the rest of the creatures on the planet is our ability to think about the world around us—and shape it. But in making all the technological advances that seems so smart, are we making the world better, or just different? This video takes a pretty lofty view…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A map of the world’s happiest (and least happiest) countries

The UN-sponsored World Happiness Report 2013 has just been released — a project that determined a country’s level of happiness by using a number of social and economic indicators taken from 2010 to 2012. This map provides a quick overview of the results. Above image: Max Fisher/The Washington Post. To get these results, the researchers…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Happiest Places in America

After parsing the results from a recent University of Vermont study of geotagged tweets, the Huffington Post has compiled a map showing just how happy — or unhappy — Americans are according to the state they live in. The numbers you see in the above graphic were derived by scoring more than 10,000 words on…

io9 George Dvorsky

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Pinterest CEO Backs Social Media Ban for Kids Under 16

Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. to Drop in Global Happiness Ranking

WandaVision‘s Trip Down Memory Lane Holds a Fascinating Mirror Up to Its Audience

Goats Do Not Like Your Grumpy Face

Does Your Community Have These Happy Neighborhood Traits?

Married People Are Even More Annoyingly Happy Than We Thought

The Rat Race Gets a Literal Interpretation in This All-Too-Relatable Animated Short

Disney World Now Makes Toddlers Get Fingerprint Scans

Cute animation shows the guide to what makes people happy

Take This Quiz to Measure Your Happiness Scientifically

More Reasons To Marry Your Best Friend

Charts Show When We’re At Our Most Miserable During the Year

These Charts Reveal Whether More Income Really Would Make You Happier

Why are materialists less happy?

One of the best habits for happy living may also be the least practiced

Is your state the most miserable in the nation?

Tears of joy and tears of sadness look different under the microscope

Can Technology Ever Make Us Truly Happy?

A map of the world’s happiest (and least happiest) countries

The Happiest Places in America

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