“Because (Paknis') book scrubs any identifying information, Toray seeks to prove that certain passages in the book refer to Toray because the events or circumstances described in those passages ...

Carol Bishop Mills is the co-founder and co-director of the Florida Altantic University MainStreet Political Communication and Public Opinion Research Lab. Happiness may be reshaping America’s ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

For decades now, scientists have been trying to figure out what role wealth plays in our satisfaction with life. While some studies have found that money doesn’t buy happiness (at least not beyond a ...

Other times they’re simply not ready yet. That hasn’t been the case with Gophers safety Koi Perich. Coach P.J. Fleck saw early in the process that the confident, supremely athletic and savvy ...

It may sound like a truism. But, for Aditi, it struck home when she heard her professor tell her that happiness cannot be an object of attainment. “There is this thinking that one day in the ...

It started when he was 20 with what he called a “mental crisis” about happiness. As he tells it in his autobiography, he discovered then a fundamental truth about finding satisfaction in life ...

A koi fish named Snappy has delighted social media with his hilarious reaction every time his owner goes out to the pond to feed him, as seen in a video that quickly went viral. The hilarious clip ...

This was a common belief in Chapman’s time, originating with mystics and faith healers who taught that positive thoughts create health and happiness. To this day, this trust is a peculiarly ...

Scrub recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Wednesday, Sept. 4, late-countdown scrub of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 8-11 mission. Original coverage: Get ...

Yet this is not the case. Even when people’s lives are good, many feel less than happy, and may be beset by anxiety and depression. Thus there is a paradox: The pursuit of happiness is one of the ...

In a world filled with diverse cultures, landscapes, and traditions, pursuing happiness is a universal endeavour. We all yearn for joy, contentment, and well-being. The pursuit of happiness is not ...