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Feeling Happy Today?

Follow @yaleSCIbooks How are you? It’s a question we are constantly asking—on the sidewalk, over the copier, at the dinner table. Almost invariably the answer is noncommittal. “Fine.” “Okay.” “I’m doing well.” What about “happy”? Happiness is hard to talk about—not least because we have so many definitions of what

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Finding Happiness in January

January is a long month. The holiday cheer begins to wear off, back to work and school; and for those of us in the cold: banks of dirtying snow and “wintry mixes,” sputtering heaters, and searing winds. At this time, the bright year ahead simultaneously seems most promising, and most

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