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Happiness is…

by Jake Yarbrough on August 7, 2009


Pets make us happy

Pets make us happy

Found this fascinating.

From the Brakke Report, a veterinary consulting firm’s weekly email, comes this juicy tidbit:

> HUMAN ANIMAL BOND A survey of 12,000 women in 21 countries conducted by Boston Consulting Group found that pets were by far the most common answer to a question asking what makes them extremely happy; 42% of the women surveyed said that their pets make them “extremely happy.” Other responses included sex (27%), food (19%), and shopping (5%). (Chicago Tribune)

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What Floats Your Boat?

March 16, 2009

What’s full of holes and still floats on water?
Evidently copper with uneven surfaces and treated with a hydrophobic chemicals. That’s what.
According to a BBC News article today, researchers in China have found a way to get postage-stamp sized pieces of copper to float more successfully than any other known material.
The team treated the copper in [...]

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Chicken Coops and Campaigns

November 6, 2008

Photo via flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/brandonchalk/)
Umair Haque has a post at Harvard Business on the seven lessons learned from the Obama campaign. It’s very thoughtful, clear and insightful.
There is always someone who can say it better. I knew there would be. I would definitely suggest you read it.
I’ve recently come across Umair’s writings and find them fascinating. [...]

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What’s The One Thing?

November 5, 2008

I’ve always considered myself a competent writer. Generally speaking, the process of stringing together coherent thoughts has never been something that has given me great difficulty. Heck, I’ve got a degree in journalism and have been writing over the course of my entire professional career.
But today, I’m stuck.
I’ve found it absolutely impossible to adequately reflect [...]

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Phone Phorm and Phunction

June 27, 2008

While I’m a proud iPhone owner and a lifelong Mac fan, I really respect what I keep seeing coming from the design team at Nokia.
PSFK pointed out a cross-cultural, international study that Nokia conducted recently about how we carry our phones. It also qualitatively measured the differences in the different ways we “carry” other essentials.
One [...]

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