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How one’s voice betrays one’s age in three ways: rate becomes slower, pitch is higher and there’s more tremor in the voice – at least in men. Next they will study women.



Before I was hired to work at NBC they… Continue

Something in a recent New York Times “Modern Love“ column struck me as ringing true, not only for enduring marriages but for flourishing friendships, “Being single is all about the future, about the person you’re going to meet at Starbucks or after answering the next scientific compatibility questionnaire. Being married, after a certain point, is about the past,… Continue

If you’re not feeling happy then this post can help. Did you know that more Americans are happier now than before our economy went bad? Now how does that make you feel?

Stay with me though for the revelation that can lift your spirits.

Everyone who claims to be happy may have some reason for finding an upside to the downturn. For one, we don’t expect to be making a lot more money –nor think others will be either. We’re all in this mess… Continue

A gang rape of a teen girl, took place over several hours at a high school, with onlookers who did nothing. It happened… Continue

In The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin manages to pack more practical “how to become happier” advice into each page of her personal story, a yearlong project. than most strictly didactic self-help books.

By reading her frank (and frankly charming) month-by-month plan, her wide-ranging book reading (from science to literature) and the everyday details of how she discovered what worked for her and what did not, one can picture one’s own… Continue