Quelli che si innamorano di pratica senza scienza son come il nocchiere, che entra in navigio senza timone o bussola, che mai ha certezza su dove si vada.” Leonardo da Vinci, artista e scienziato italiano, 1452-1519
Martin Segliman’s view that
Happyness = life of pleasure + life of flow + life of meaning.
What if technology could enhance the meaning of life?
Sherwin Nuland - the development of electroshock theraphy and his own story.
Article publised in the BMJ medical journal in december 2008 which observes in a longitudinal study that people who are happy tend to cluster together with other happy people. One person becoming happy seems to influence the friend of the friend of his friend!
very large prime number discovered :)
Frankl - Regard man as what he could be. Search for meaning.
The following 5 paintings are a series of paintings by Thomas Cole, an american painter of the 19th century. See how the view shifts slightly: in every picture the mountain (which looks a bit like the swiss Matterhorn :) is seen from a different viewpoint. And the time of the day is different, starting with morning and ending with evening. Somehow it reminds of life…
