Category: Life
Easton Town Meeting approves new pickleball courts engineering
MarketWatch:Uber and Lyft IPOs mean the cheap rides are coming to an end
To get to profitability, ride-hailing companies will have to get rid of drivers or raise prices, and they are likely to do both…
Lee Williams – Snot Rags, Bicycles & Grange Fairs in the 40’s, 50’s
Lee Williams, Life Around the 5 Corners in the 40’s, 50’s
Lee Williams, Sights, Sounds and Smells of the Easton Furnace Village area during the 40’s and 50’s
Lee Williams, Having a Paper Route in Easton during the 40’s and 50’s
AFL Podcast Episode #19 – Lee Williams, Farm Work in Easton during the 40’s and 50’s
A little Cape Cod R & R
NPR – Anger Can Be Contagious — Here’s How To Stop The Spread
This can happen during our most basic exchanges, say on your commute to work. “If someone smiles at you, you smile back at them,” says sociologist Nicholas Christakis of Yale University. “That’s a very fleeting contagion of emotion from one person to another.”
But it doesn’t stop there. Emotions can spread through social networks almost like the flu or a cold. And the extent to which emotions can cascade is eye-opening.
For instance, Christakis’ research has shown that if you start to become happier with your life, a friend living close by has a 25 percent higher chance of becoming happy too. And your partner is more likely to feel better as well. The happiness can even spread to people to whom you’re indirectly connected…