Happiness and politics
The latest trend in econometrics is to disprove the correlation between material prosperity and personal happiness *. The established spiritual truth that money won't make you happy is "news" to...
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Our 'Gross National Happiness' is now threatened...
Bhutan's former king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, an environmentalist who made the protection of resources the cornerstone philosophy of his nation, named his policy -- the idea that lifestyle and values...
View ArticleGross National Happiness
I was reminded about Bhutan's Gross National Happiness principles by an article published by today's San Francisco Chronicle. I have always been somewhat bothered by the belief of many economists that...
View ArticleTaking you in to the Unknown world-South Asia Series I
South Asia consists of the following countries and territories: Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka Some academic and/or cultural institutions from the United States and the...
View ArticleWhat makes YOU happy...?
crossposted at svenworld ====== A lot of thought and discussion has been given to the exact reasons why we find ourselves in this current economic crisis. There has been ample and cogent analysis...
View ArticleGross National Happiness
Traditionally when talking about or measuring the overall health and prosperity of a nation, policy makers and academicians turn to economic measures. While there are many different economic measures...
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Rubin Museum: Young Explorer Quentin Roosevelt Searched Art in Wartime China
Edited by Jim Luce. In 1939, at the height of the Sino-Japanese War, a 19-year-old Harvard art history student set off for the remote region of Lijiang, China, in search of the mysterious ancient...
View ArticleRare Snow Leopard Video
This video was released last week, and I don't think there are that many videos of this paticular type of leopard and the quality is pretty good, so I figure what the heck, post it here so other folks...
View ArticleNews From Seven Continents. And Not a Word About the Sequester.
Have you ever had the urge to Google News countries like Bhutan or Luxembourg to find out what's really happening in the world? Now you don't have to because I've gone and done it for you.Here's a top...
View ArticleSustainable, Happy, Efficient (or, the whole point of government)
What's the point of government? You could say that the goal, at its most generic, is to encourage the efficient delivery of sustainable wellbeing to citizens. Well, if that's the goal, we ought to...
View ArticleTrekking Bhutan during the Dot-Boom - Part 1
Back in another life, during the Dot-Boom, I put a poster of Bhutan up on the window in front of my computer, at the start-up ISP I was working at. We had racks of modems attached to phone lines,...
View ArticleTrekking Bhutan - Part 2 - Day Hike to Phajoding Monastary
Part 1Dogs and dishes wake me at 6am. After breakfast, I watch the Thimphu street life start up. An old man seated in the middle of a field of sand slowly pulls off his pants and starts filling paper...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 8/23/13
Gross National HappinessThe former Mayor of Sebastopol, Larry Robinson, wrote a column in our local paper that really provoked my thinking. He mentioned that the nation of Bhutan has, since 1972, used...
View ArticlePM: "Bhutan is open for business, but only for clean, green and sustainable...
More of this please. Dare I hope that, at least in the third world, we may be witnessing clean renewable energy as a national priority? In Bhutan, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, was treated like a...
View ArticleKosAbility: Gender in Pharmacokinetics; Puberty Ed for Girls Globally; &...
A skim of titles in this 180+ sampling of links to fairly readable medical journal articles emphasizing 2014 (with some earlier and later) illustrates professional grasp and understanding of...
View ArticleInternational Elections Digest: Stabbing throws Brazil's presidential race...
Leading Off●Brazil –president (Oct. 7 & 28)With just a month to go ahead of October's vote, Brazil’s presidential election was thrown into chaos on Thursday, when the leading far-right candidate,...
View ArticleIn the Himalayas, glacier melting has doubled since 2000, says new study
Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting at twice the rate they used to, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances. Why? In short: climate change.A team of scientists used...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: News from Mountain Countries
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico,...
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Can we cool the planet? NOVA asks the question.
Bad News — Good News. While the simultaneous health and political crises in the U.S. are taking up a lot of our attention, there’s also the third crisis — Climate Change. NOVA has a must-see show that...
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Alphabetical Countries #2: From The Bahamas to Burundi, one story at a time.
Wandering through the world alphabetically, one country at a time, one (or maybe more than one) story at a time:Countries #1 — Afghanistan to Azerbaijan — can be found hereOriginally published in the...
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Monday Open Thread, FP&IE
Welcome to an all day open thread hosted by “Foreign Policy and International Events Group”. Drop by to share links and stories or for commentary. (or just play peekaboo and say look what I found). Who...
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Covid-19 Vaccination Success Story from Bhutan
The Washington Post has a fascinating article on the isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and how they managed to incorporate astrology into what must be the most successful vaccination program yet...
View ArticleStudying 100% Renewable Energy Studies
the war that matters is the war against the imaginationall other wars are subsumed in it.Diane di Prima, “Rant" On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research...
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