As the world's fastest animals, the big cats can run up to 65 mph and need to get up to speed to burn off metabolic compounds. But the two who live at the Houston Zoo don't have much opportunity to do that. Until now. In early November, an entourage of 10 people took a pair of 5-year-old cheetah brothers to the Sam Houston Race Park.
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Have you read the book Lean In by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg yet? In professional women's circles, it's all the rage. It has sparked conversations about whether women can truly 'have it all', and whether they even want to. But it misses a key point related to positive psychology - it's focused on success rather than happiness. What about our innate simple desire to be happy? Carin Rockind explores this in her essay, Lean In to Happiness Instead.
In our day-to-day lives it is easy to overlook some of the smaller, simpler things that can disproportionally boost our happiness levels. Seven actionable steps have been shown by research to produce a happier life.
Commuters in a Chicago area train station were asked to participate in an experiment. Instead of remaining isolated, like most commuters do, they agreed to talk to the stranger next to them. Cy the end of the train ride, commuters who talked to a person nearby reported having a more positive experience than those who had sat in solitude.
In a recent Argentinian publication, Pope Francis revealed his Top 10 guidelines for achieving happiness. He advocated for playing more, especially with others and children, and toning down one's negativity. He advises us to care for the environment and work for peace. Most surprising to some will be #9.
A California woman says her pet shih-tzu, missing for the past five years, amazingly reappeared on her doorstep last week -- even after the family had moved several times.
This week, a new rule went into effect for hospitals across the nation to ease the longtime burden on unmarried or gay partners who, until now, could be prohibited from visiting loved ones who may lie sick and dying without a hand to hold. The rule ensures that hospitals choosing to participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs must respect the rights of patients to designate visitors.
It is a popular adage that good news doesn't sell when the mainstream media's motto seems to be, if it bleeds, it leads. Why then, are we seeing some of their most popular stories trumpeting triumphs of the heart? In the cases of the Chilean miners and the man with the golden voice, happy feelings of success have trumped every other news story around.
A retired couple in Michigan believes that every child should have the exalted feeling of riding alone with the wind in their face. So, they build custom-made tricycles for small children with disabilities.
Not only is she one of the historic class of 2012 women elected to the US Congress this week. Not only is she the first Thai-American woman to be sent to Capitol Hill. Tammy Duckworth is an Iraq War veteran, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot who lost both of her legs in combat. The impressive Duckworth was born in Bangkok, Thailand, to an American father, a U.S. Marine Corps officer.
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