Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Araz Hachadourian, Paulina Phelps, and Olivia Anderson, YES! Magazine
In the heat zone of Louisville, Kentucky, 170 residents have been trained as “citizen foresters.”
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- Written by: Deborah Tyler Blais
Nearing the lake on that warm September morning, I heard a tiny mewing sound. My first inclination was to ignore the cries. I've been through enough lately, I thought; I can hardly take care of myself. Meow! Meow! The insistent pleas continued.
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- Written by: Doug Heyes, M.A.
I raised my hand in class at the University of Santa Monica and quietly shared that there was something I needed to own. I told the class that I’d had an extraordinary experience of personal healing in my life, and that I was a healer. That I had been working for a number of years on developing and refining my approach...
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- Written by: Grainne Cleary, Deakin University
It brings many people joy to provide food and water for birds, to encourage them to stay a while and be given the chance to observe them more closely. But some people are reluctant to interact with birds in this way because they’re worried it might damage the birds’ health.
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- Written by: Rob Warren, University of California, Davis
A new drug shows promise for treating heart disease in cats and humans, report researchers.
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- Written by: Jeff Sossamon, University of Missouri
Researchers saw a three-fold increase in BPA levels in dogs who ate canned dog food for two weeks. They also saw changes in the dogs’ gut microbes.
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- Written by: Blaine Friedlander, Cornell University
Farmers looking to reduce reliance on pesticides, herbicides, and other pest management tools may want to heed the advice of agricultural scientists: Let nature be nature—to a degree.
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- Written by: Ken Roseboro
A new report has found that U.S. land for organic farming reached 4.1 million acres in 2016, a new record and an 11 percent increase compared to 2014.
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- Written by: Olga Kreimer, YES! Magazine
Far from the 9-to-5, the work of building community can be a challenge when the cash economy is less relevant and volunteers are just passing through.
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- Written by: Gerry Everding, Washington University in St. Louis
Anthropologists for the first time have captured on video wild chimpanzee mothers teaching their offspring to use tools to find food. The videos were made at termite mounds in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo.
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- Written by: Tim Cooper, Nottingham Trent University
Is the throwaway era about to end? The past half century has given us toasters that are irreparable after a minor fault, T-shirts that quickly shrink or fade, and vacuum cleaners that need replacing after a few years.
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- Written by: Catherine Douglas, Newcastle University
The bird experts and authors of the book Cat Wars recently called for all free-roaming cats to be euthanised or kept on a lead. They argue that cats’ tendency to kill birds and small mammals has lead to a catastrophic decline in the numbers of these creatures.
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- Written by: Chris Williams, University of Melbourne
As the weather warms and days lengthen, your attention may be turning to that forgotten patch of your backyard. This week we’ve asked our experts to share the science behind gardening. So grab a trowel and your green thumbs, and dig in.
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- Written by: Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, University of Central Lancashire
Dog owners often notice their pets watching televisions, computer screens and tablets. But what is going on in their pooch’s head? Indeed, by tracking their vision using similar methods used on humans, research has found that domestic dogs do prefer certain images and videos.
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- Written by: Tom Abate, Stanford University
If woven into clothing, a new low-cost, plastic-based textile could cool your body far more efficiently than is possible with the natural or synthetic fabrics in clothes we wear today.
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- Written by: Bob Cooper, Ensia
Tiny, biointensive operations show smallholder farmers from around the world how they can grow far more food than conventional approaches.
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- Written by: Carol Clark, Emory University
A groundbreaking study combines brain imaging and behavior to reveal that many dogs prefer praise from their owners over food rewards. Conducted by researchers at Emory University, this research highlights the strength of the dog-human bond and suggests that dogs may value social interaction more than previously thought.
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- Written by: Cat Johnson, Shareable
On a recent Monday evening in Seattle’s Central District, a handful of people gathered to work on a community farm. They pulled weeds, talked about the best ways to string up tomatoes, checked the progress of the greens and beans, harvested radishes and planted wildflowers.
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- Written by: Linda Kohanov
As I became more adept at motivating my horse, focusing her attention, and gaining her respect, relationships at home and work improved. People commented on the change, yet no one could pinpoint what had shifted. The plot thickened as I gained more knowledge about instinctual horse behavior.
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- Written by: Hazel Jackson, University of Kent
Love them or hate them, ring-necked parakeets have invaded Europe and they’re here to stay. Already a staple of many urban parks and gardens around the UK, some of these charismatic bright green birds are now so comfortable in their new surroundings that they will happily sit and feed from your hand.
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- Written by: Andy Fell, University of California, Davis
Plant biologists have discovered how sunflowers use their internal circadian clock, acting on growth hormones, to follow the sun during the day as they grow.
