Category Archives: society

Adapting to Happiness

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

Is happiness all it’s cracked up to be? I write about my reflections on happiness research in this piece which originally appeared in the cultural journal The Woolf: The Woolf’s resident scientist, Iida Ruishalme, approaches happiness from diverse angles, looking at how her ideas … Continue reading →

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Injecting Kindness into the Debate

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

Vaccines are a topic that stir up a lot of emotions. How should we talk about them? Will anything we do make a difference? What if we frame the question somewhat differently: can we make a difference by the way behave in our interactions with other people? Continue reading →

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