Waching daily Dec 10 2017

Hey guys, Matt here for Science or Fiction.

Ever meet someone so happy that you figure they must be hiding some terrifying secrets?

You know, like your co-worker Brad.

Ugh.

Nothing good could come from hanging out with someone as happy as Brad, right?

Maybe I should give Brad a call.

A few years back headlines were running with the assertion that happiness may be contagious,

like a bizarro awesome version of the flu.

So can the happiness of others make you happy?

Is our best hope for happiness to hang out with happy guys like Brad who refuse to share

everyone's gloom that it's only Tuesday and the workweek is lasting FOREVER.

The idea that happiness is contagious comes from a study that followed more than 4,700

people for 20 years and asked them to periodically fill out questionnaires about their wellbeing.

After creating an emotional baseline, the researchers found that emotions fluctuated

based on the participant's social network.

And no, not we're not talking about their Snapchat followers.

For example, the study found that a good friend who lives about a half mile away can increase

happiness up to 42%, a neighbor can increase happiness 34%, and a spouse can only increase

happiness by about 8%.

Sorry guys.

The study found that happiness doesn't seem to spread in the workplace however, possibly

because if one person gets a promotion, someone else doesn't.

Hey wait a minute, does that mean Brad got the promotion?

Ugh, typical.

But some people have their doubts about the study's findings, arguing that it's possible

that happy people are just drawn to other happy people.

It could also be that people who live near each other share the same types of environments

that might increase happiness, like safe neighborhoods, affluence, or good employment.

In response to these arguments, the study's authors said that strangers sharing the same

environment, say a affluent, safe neighborhood, didn't have the same positive happiness

effect as neighbors who knew each other, concluding that it was the WHO and not the WHERE.

However, detractors remain, even publishing another study based on the same data set and

using the same correlation reasoning.

Using those methods, they were able find that non-transferable traits like height were also contagious.

They found short teenagers who befriended tall kids actually became taller over time.

Man, studies trolling other studies, it happens.

Other serious research has shown that it is actually biological factors rather than societal

ones that determines happiness.

One such study found that 35-50% of happiness was attributable to genetic factors like those

found in your brain, not your neighbor.

In the end, the happiness contagion findings weren't as conclusive as some headlines indicated.

That "contagion" may be more correlation and less causation, and if there is causation,

it could also be impacted by biological factors.

That's not to say that you can't become happy: It just means I might not have to hang

out with Brad to do so.

You just can't stop smiling, can you?

Yea, I know!

Anyway, what do you think?

Not about the dark secrets Brad is probably hiding behind that cold smile,

about what makes people happy!

Who makes you happier: your significant other or your friends?

Don't answer if your spouse is in the room.

Especially if she's a praying mantis.

Check out this video if you don't get what I mean.

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For more infomation >> Is Happiness Actually Contagious? - Duration: 3:01.

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Coronation Street spoilers: Is THIS shocking secret what Carla Connor has been hiding? - Duration: 4:11.

Coronation Street spoilers: Is THIS shocking secret what Carla Connor has been hiding?

After 18 months away from Coronation Street, Carla Connor returns at Christmas to help them reopen Underworld and spread some festive cheer among the dreary cobbles.

The soap favourite was initially summoned to the Street by little brother Aidan (Shane Ward) in the hopes that she will buy the factory back off them and in the process, save the failing business.

But Aidan is left less than impressed when she declines his offer, instead choosing to flaunt her wealth by splashing out on pricey presents and parties.

But as she reconnects with the rest of the Coronation Street cast, Carla seemingly changes her mind, telling Aidan the good news….

However, as the rest of the Connors raise a toast to celebrate, Carla immediately pushes any alcohol away, which instantly arouses suspicion.

Upon hearing of her return, old friend Roy Cropper (David Neilson) rushes back from his Christmas hols to the Lake District and warmly greets Carla, with the pair immediately speaking together privately, with Carla opening up about just what shes hiding.

Could Carla be pregnant? Or could she be acknowledging her previous problems with the demon drink? Coronation Street fans could remember back in 2010 when she regularly attended Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, where she met former flame Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne).

Whatever the reason, Carla begs Roy not to tell anyone what shes hiding and teases that shes not planning around for that much longer anyway.

But when she hears all her familys problems, Carla seems to have a change of heart yet again as she offers a shoulder to cry on for Kate Connor (Faye Bookes) when she hears about her lesbian affair with Rana Nazir (Bhavna Limbachia).

She also offers to clear Robert Prestons (Tristan Gemmill) gambling debt to help out old pal Michelle Connor (Kym Marsh) and says she can rent a flat out for Aidan.

Just as it looks as if shes settled back in nicely to her old life on Coronation Street, things explode for Carla when she invites Roy to The Bistro for a New Years Eve do.

When he sees her with a mojito, the usually-placid cafe owner loses his temper and berates her for drinking alcohol.

As he shouts at her, Carla reassures him that its only an innocent glass of lemonade, but his harsh words leave her slip out of the party in tears.

As she prepares to move back to Devon, Roy apologises and insists she moves in with him so he can look after her. Just what is Carla hiding from everyone? Coronation Street continues Monday at 7.30pm and 8.30pm on ITV.

For more infomation >> Coronation Street spoilers: Is THIS shocking secret what Carla Connor has been hiding? - Duration: 4:11.

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The internet is no fun. - Duration: 4:20.

Hi friends,

Hear me out on this one-- The internet, was a bad idea.

I mean obviously i don't believe that, i am talking to you via youtube dot the internet

dot com.

I get it.

But this morning I woke up, and I opened twitter, and I started doing the thing that I do these

days where I write down on a piece of paper all the things I need to call congress about

because there's too many to remember it off the top of my head.

Then, I delete a few youtube comments about my appearance, and I go try out that year

and review thing from facebook where they politely remind me that one of my best memories

of the past year is talking about how we've all been sexually harassed.

There's a video!

It's funnnn.

Rosianna recently made a video about the internet and communication and I've been thinking

all week about it and how to comment on it but then it just kept getting longer and longer

and now it's a vlog script.

So thanks Rosianna for the content.

In the video she talks about how leaving twitter improved her mental wellbeing but now she

is relearning how to communicate with friends honestly and directly instead of just vaguely

announcing things in the direction of the internet.

That maybe she never really learned to communicate and that she's learning that now for the

first time.

I also feel like I'm having a hard time with communication on the social internet

but I think for different reasons.

My first real internet community was a fall out boy message board and that's where I

learned that online communication was dope.

I started with a fake identity because that's what you did in 2005, but as I spent more

time there I got to know people and i felt safe to start talking.

I was able to make friends, tell people how I was really feeling, be vulnerable, all that

good stuff.

But more importantly it was FUN.

I don't know if you've heard of memes, but there's these pictures on the internet.

They're a form of social currency and your dad doesn't know what they are.

I came up in a time where you'd be getting to know somebody, right, and there was that

moment, where you all get together around somebody's laptop and go omg have you seen

this one and you pull up a weird flash animation and then everybody laughs and then somebody

else goes, and then it's your turn there's this moment where, over an absurdist animated

rap about george washington murdering bears and you look at each other and go….

*friendship* The internet, for me, has always been a place

of wonder and creativity.

Sure we posture, and try to look cool, but we also get to try things, and find people

that are the same kind of weird as we are, and invent new subgenres of absurdist humor.

I get to make a video talking about toast drawings and you get to identify with that,

for some reason.

But that wonder, that playfulness, that joy, feels almost inappropriate now.

Like if I were to jump on to twitter and start being silly it would be disrespectful to all

the people hurting from these huge world-changing shifts that seem to be happening 17 times

a day.

Instead we're all just trying to describe all the things that are changing around us

hoping it will help us survive.

And I think to some degree it is effective at that.

It is helping us organize and mobilize and resist.

But at times i think that ingesting all this information before we get out of bed is like

a kind of paradoxical undressing--you know when people who are freezing to death start

to feel warm and remove all their clothes?

We're developing a hypervigilance that instead of making us safer is wearing us more thin.

And I don't really know what to do.

The internet should be an organizing tool but I also miss it being a playground.

I guess in attempt to protect ourselves we took all our toys and went home.

Tell me, in comments, do your online communities feel different now?

Is there any place left on the internet that feels good?

If so where is it?

I'm looking for a new playground.

Despite all this, I think a free and open internet is incredibly important and at seriously

at risk.

So there will be links in the description to fight back and protect net neutrality.

If you liked this video you can subscribe, you can find me anywhere on the internet @itsradishtime,

and if you want to help me make more videos you can support me on Patreon, and I'll

see you next week.

Bye!

*clap*

For more infomation >> The internet is no fun. - Duration: 4:20.

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How sweet is your poison? | Kosem & Kemankes | Fanfic - Duration: 1:36.

For more infomation >> How sweet is your poison? | Kosem & Kemankes | Fanfic - Duration: 1:36.

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Siege is Not Hot | Ez Skrrrahh | Rainbow Six Siege - Duration: 5:03.

You Tw-at

Don't look at me

(distorted scream)

(Team left me all alone)

Why you bully me ?!

Why you bully me? everyone asking!

(now the game is fixed, I'm back)

Nooooo

ohh, you luckyyy F***

Don't run away from me !!

Ben

Ben u **************

yea babyy!!!

Ben just go die !!

Mum told you i'm at wrok!

Ayy, it's your boy

someone is poisoned!!

Howww?!!!!

That's Ethen, That's Ethen, your trying to kill him

Come here, Beat

Mum, stop calling me

Mum, I'm clutching

Play of the game

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