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Here is an interesting article about one of my favorite subjects: the evolution of the concept of happiness.

Here is the link to the Journal of Happiness Studies, if you have a whole afternoon to waste.

Here is a link to an article by Martin Seligman at www.edge.org. He is a bit of a celebrity in the field of happiness studies.

And actually, edge.org is a great website, though not as great as the Arts and Letters Daily, which is my favorite site on the Internet (that doesn’t have free porn).

While we are on the topic of the edge.org, this article is incredibly interesting.

Before this I always instictively knew that there had to be a good and logical explanation for why the white man rules the world. And I knew it wasn’t because of any inherent superiority. That just never made good sense to me. I knew it was cultural. I just didn’t know how it all started.

Now I can say it was because of cows, weather and the luck of geography.

Some of you might be thinking, “Do I actually read all this crap??” The answer is yes.

But is seems I’m in the minority. Reading is a dying art. That is sad because if it disappears entirely I might actually have to do something, instead of just reading about doing it.

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