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Are We Too Pessimistic About Happiness?

I was diddling around with some stuff after reading that New Zealand will henceforth be prioritizing happiness—“well-being and life satisfaction”—over economic growth, and came across this scatterplot about perceived happiness vs. actual happiness: In every single country, the average estimate of happiness is far lower than actual reported happiness. Every single country! In the US,…

Watch the Comedy Stylings of Rep. Katie Porter

Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for my representative in the United States Congress! Wow @RepKatiePorter out-funnied Bill Maher on his own show. Maher said he’s “squishy” on choice because his mom almost didn’t have him, and Porter absolutely brought down the house with this response pic.twitter.com/F6WDDfYSqQ — Tommy Xtophernobyl (@tommyxtopher) June 8, 2019

How US Government Funds Meant to Stop Poaching May Have Ended up Funding Torture

This story was originally published by HuffPost and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.  The House Natural Resources Committee has launched a bipartisan investigation into whether federal conservation grants support organizations linked to alleged human rights abuses overseas.  The probe follows a BuzzFeed News investigation in March that found the World Wide Fund for Nature,…