What makes us happy?

For our final project we are to find a theme on TED that interests us and narrow that down to a good topic to do a project on. The theme that grabbed me is what makes you happy. Earlier in the year I had one post on happiness and the video that I blogged about I really enjoyed. So, I thought this would be a great theme. Then comes the narrowing down to a topic. What makes you happy, that's a pretty specific thing if you ask me, but lets go smaller and do my final project an happiness in general. What exactly is happiness? Is it just a feeling or something you can accomplish? Happiness is something that everyone wants, but I've never really thought about it much and think it would be an interesting research topic. I have a feeling it will be hard to find the information I need, but knowing this theme is on TED will probably benefit me in the end. Where did the word happiness come from? Does it have a deeper meaning then just a good feeling you get?  So many questions are rolling around in my head, I can't wait to get started. In the end I want to be a happiness expert and be able to answer the question what is happiness, with an in depth, intelligent, passionate answer.

growing up in slow motion

This week we were supposed to find two talks about an interesting topic, I chose living a longer life. In the first video Cynthia Kenyon experiments with worms and their genes to more then double their lives. In the next, Aubery de Grey talks about how aging is a curable disease. My learning goal is will preventing aging cause problems with our population and everyday lives?



I think its great that their is a way to make you live longer, by changing this one gene Cynthia more than doubled the life of those worms. Some people I believe would love that others...not so much.




Aubrey says we age in more than one way, I never really thought about it like that, it Makes sense though. I think it's weird that he thinks of aging as a disease.

if we were to have a learn this button their are 5 questions I have to help reach my learning goal:
1. How much longer does the average person live?
2. What percent of the population wants to expand their lives?
3. How many kids does a typical family have?
4. Will our economy support a higher population?
5. Can we provide the food and houses we need for a growing population?