Omnivore - This Is What Happiness Looks Like

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog at the end of February, here is a jolly collection of links on the topics of happiness, work, freedom, pleasure, and contentment.

This is what happiness looks like

Feb 25 2014  

9:00AM

• Anne Brunon-Ernst (Pantheon-Assas): Jeremy Bentham's Definition of Happiness. 
• Valentine Ibeka (Copenhagen): Should Public Pursuance of Happiness Be Discredited? 
• Roisin Timmins (Edinburgh): Fear of Crime, Fear of Control: How Structuring Freedoms Can Increase Happiness. 
• Yvan I. Russell (Gottingen) and Steve Phelps (Essex): How Do You Measure Pleasure? A Discussion About Intrinsic Costs and Benefits in Primate Allogrooming. 
• Viviana Ramirez (Bath): Ranking by Happiness: A New World Order? (2011). 
• Finn Janning (TBS): The Happiness of Burnout. 
• Happiness is not the same as a sense of meaning; how do we go about finding a meaningful life, not just a happy one? Roy F. Baumeister wants to know. 
• Why is a dedication to work, no matter how physically destructive and ultimately pointless, considered a virtue? Jenny Diski urges you to down tools while you can. 
• Happiness finds its way to print: Samir Husni interviews with Live Happy magazine editor in chief Karol DeWulf Nickell. 
• Tim Adams interviews Robert Skidelsky: “Why don't more people aspire to living a good life?” 
• This is what happiness looks like: It's possible to isolate what sustained contentment is — and it's more attainable than you might think. 
• I know what will cheer you up: Emotion-detecting advertising is coming — beware. 
• Can putting your child before yourself make you a happier person? 
• Kameron St.Clare on happiness as resistance: Moral obligations of the oppressed. 
• Research suggests a happy life may not be a meaningful life: Tasks that seem mundane, or even difficult, can bring a sense of meaning over time. 
• Noise makes people unhappy, cancer may not. 
• Want a happier life? Act your age.