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#83 Happiness

Feel stuck in negative thoughts? Take Ecstasy, break out of the blues and make your own per­sonal contribution to the illegal drug market. With over 210 million loyal customers, it is now worth, according to UN estimates, more than the GDP of 88 percent of the world’s countries.

Alexander Shulgin, “The Godfather of Ecstasy”, 87, in his lab, Davis, California, USA.

Stuck in time

Although a bad experience seems eternal, consciousness of time’s relativity lets us anticipate relief. But do animals have the same ability to look forward, the same knowledge that “everything will be alright”? Dogs are simply unable to perceive the passage of time, says animal psychologist William Roberts. They are “stuck in time”, consumed by the most fleeting pain or pleasure.

Image from “Dogs in cars”, a photography project by Martin Usborne.

#83 Happiness

You get it when you win a race and lose it when you get laid off. Governments put it in their policies, preachers in their sermons, writers at the ends of their stories. Scientists say they’ve found it on the left side of…

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