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To: combjelly who wrote (800615)	8/9/2014 4:21:52 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583706

Scientists Reveal Equation for Happiness LITERALLY: THEY DEVELOPED A MATHEMATICAL FORMULA TO PREDICT IT By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Aug 9, 2014 1:50 PM CDT ( It's SIMPLE! If you can't understand it, you are doomed to unhappiness. ) (NEWSER) – How happy will you be at a given point in time? Scientists have come up with an equation to answer the question, or as they call it in the journal PNAS, "a computational and neural model of momentary subjective well-being." Mathematicians can marvel at the actual formula here. Laymen can simply remember this takeaway: Lower expectations can bring you more happiness, Today reports. In a series of tests on subjects, the researchers found that people are happiest when things turn out better than expected, happier even than they would be had expectations been high in the first place. But it's not just about your expectations at any given moment, a researcher from University College London tells the BBC. "All of the recent expectations and rewards combine to determine your current state of happiness." And all these factors get crunched in the fancy formula. "We can look at past decisions and outcomes and predict exactly how happy you will say you are at any point in time," says the researcher. The team proved the point by accurately predicting happiness levels of 18,000 users of a smartphone app called " The Great Brain Experiment." Researchers hope the findings can boost our understanding of mood disorders. (If all that's too complicated, try the pope's tips for happiness.)

To: combjelly who wrote (800615)	8/9/2014 5:47:06 PM
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I am hopeful koan will throw in the towel on Obomber(aka Bush III), but I doubt it. we're back in Iraq after destroying how many countries in the interlude? Ukraine, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Syria, giving ISIS a helping hand, ad nauseum. Any Dem still believing the D's are any different than the R's needs his head examined. Media, Politicians in Lockstep Behind New Iraq WarCongress Split Between Pro-War and Even More Pro-War by Jason Ditz, August 08, 2014 After the overwhelming unpopularity of the US occupation of Iraq in its waning years, the new US military operation, announced last night by President Obama, has proven surprisingly non-controversial among Congressmen and media outlets. The war has been embraced with open arms. The major cable news channels trotted out round after round of pro-war guests, all parroting the administration’s “genocide” narrative, hyping the humanitarian problems of the ISIS war and pushing US intervention as the end-all, be-all solution of it all. On the Congressional side, bipartisan support, virtually without exception, was assured. The only real public complaints from Congressional leaders were that they thought the war should’ve begun sooner, and should be bigger than it has gotten so far. A handful of antiwar Democrats expressed concern about mission creep, though this too was included amid backing the war as currently laid out by the administration, and was more about reserving the right to complain about the quagmire the war will inevitably become, as opposed to not wanting to start down that path to begin with.