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The U.S. ranks as the 23rd happiest country in the world, according to a new report from the United Nations published on Wednesday. And while that may not sound too bad, given the fact that there are 143 countries on the list, it’s a significant drop from last year when the U.S. ranked 15th. Sadly, it looks like Americans under the age of 44 are to blame for our national malaise.Oscar Issac on How Hope Plays into Leo's ArcThe study—published each year by the UN, Oxford, and Gallup—tracks global happiness on a three-year…

By Elizabeth Fernandez, University of California - San Francisco February 27, 2024UCSF research establishes a connection between childhood trauma and lifelong health consequences, emphasizing the critical need for early detection and intervention to mitigate the risk of physical and cognitive impairments in later life. Credit: SciTechDaily.comAdverse childhood experiences have impacts deep into old age, especially for those who experienced violence, and include both physical and cognitive impairments.It’s known that a…

When Angelina Jolie Was Unhappy About A Character Because It Wasn’t Real Enough To Her ( Photo Credit – Facebook ) Angelina Jolie once, in an interview, revealed being unhappy about the portrayal of her character as it was not very racy. The actress even turned down that movie initially but then did it anyway. Jolie is one of the highest-paid and most successful actors in Hollywood. She is a global superstar who has done dozens of movies across various languages. Jolie started her career as a child actor and shared…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As a sociologist who studies how people think and feel about work, I've been struck by the unflattering cultural narrative that has intensified around work in recent years. The so-called "Great Resignation" of 2021 and 2022 saw an increase in anti-work rhetoric and the onset of the "quiet quitting" trend—a variation…

Tesla told employees today that it will do another pay adjustment, a second in a few weeks, after employees expressed disappointment with the last one. But the automaker has now delayed the second pay increase, which is happening amid the CEO, Elon Musk, asking for a historic compensation package. Tesla recently announced the annual wage increases for employees across the company following annual reviews. Much has been said about Tesla factory workers getting pay bumps following the auto…

On a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D'Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive picked earlier in the day.Instead of resembling the plump, gleaming green and black fruit overflowing in bins around him, this one is half-consumed, dry and shrunken."That's what the olive fly does," he explained. "It lays its larvae, which then devours the olive."D'Amico lists off other pests and fungi — olive leprosy, peacock's eye…

David Jaffe, the original creator of the God Of War franchise has criticised the direction that the newer games have gone in. READ MORE: ‘God of War Ragnarok’ review: the Boy is back in town Jaffe – who led 2005’s original God Of War title and 2007’s sequel – shared a video onto his YouTube channel, titled “God Of War – does it need to be so… personal?” last week and in it, shares his thoughts on the 2018 reboot and last year’s Ragnarok. Responding to comments that animation director Bruno Velazquez in the past about…

Billionaire Elon Musk has an AI startup venture called xAI, which has developed the Grok AI chatbot. It was announced on November 4, with Musk revealing that “Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!” Grok answers spicy questions that are often rejected by most other AI systems, and it does so with humour and wit, potentially matching Musk's free speech ideology. While Musk's AI venture has developed the…

The fantasy is enticing, and has a tendency to emerge at times of discomfort. In stories about immigration, longing and loss, the idea of returning to the motherland can appear like an alluring siren call. It begins to feel like a place that will smooth away all your discomforts and restore you to your full self. When you reach it, the fantasy teases, you will be complete, and you will have found home.For the protagonists of Past Lives, the hotly tipped romance film by South Korean-Canadian playwright Celine Song, the…

Christopher Nolan’s much-awaited movie “Oppenheimer” has been released. The film delves into the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the renowned physicist widely known as the father of the atomic bomb and his pivotal role in the groundbreaking “Manhattan Project.” While many are familiar with Oppenheimer’s scientific achievements, few are aware of his profound connection to the ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. Multiple reports suggest that Oppenheimer not only had a deep understanding of the core teachings of…