PHIL 3160 – Philosophy of Happiness

What is it, how can we best pursue it, why should we? Supporting the study of these and related questions at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond. "Examining the concept of human happiness and its application in everyday living as discussed since antiquity by philosophers, psychologists, writers, spiritual leaders, and contributors to pop culture."

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Nine!

Light is life. I'm grateful for it. And I still sleep way below average.

"It was on this day in 1879 that the inventor Thomas Edison finally struck upon the idea for a workable electric light…
One of the effects of the invention of the electric light is that people sleep less than they once did. Before 1910, people slept an average of nine hours a night; since then, it's about seven and a half. Sleep researchers have shown in the laboratory that if people are deprived of electric light, they will go back to the nine-hour-a-night schedule."

https://open.substack.com/pub/thewritersalmanac/p/the-writers-almanac-from-saturday-da8?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

No comments:

Post a Comment

You don’t need a pill: Neo

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependen...