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A STUDY WHICH required participants to chronicle their emotional state on their smartphones at regular points in the day has found that spending time by the sea is key to happiness.
A team from the London School of Economics and Political Science studied the responses from 22,000 people who uploaded their information to an app especially designed for the study. The app – Mappiness – reminded users to log their emotional states at points of the day. Their location was also recorded and cross-posted. One million responses were used in the study.
The conclusion of all that logging?
Being outdoors, near the sea, on a warm, sunny weekend afternoon is the perfect spot for most. In fact, participants were found to be substantially happier outdoors in all natural environments than they were in urban environments.
Dr George MacKerron, from University of Sussex, who undertook the study in conjunction with the LSE, said:
People recorded the highest levels of happiness in marine and coastal locations, followed by mountains and moors, forests and farms.
Being active in an outdoor setting, or even just birdwatching, raised happiness levels. Women, and the older population in general, experience the highest level of satisfaction from being outdoors.
The study, published in the Global Environmental Change journal, says that it provides “a new line of evidence on links between nature and wellbeing”.
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Well if this was Russia we would all get 2 years plus for the way we speak openly here about our Government?? Ohhh and B I am not funded directly or indirectly by the US :p
Spot the CIA operative in our ranks. Scratch that, say a wrong word here and you’ll be outed as in the pay of the Rothchilds or Bilderburger Group…
This is the same band that erected signs in a central Moscow area a while back protesting AGAINST gay people and Jews.
These guys were indirectly funded by US Justice Department and deserved what they got.
2 years for a 55 second protest that hurt nobody is plain wrong.
If what you say is true then I don’t feel sorry for them but pussy riot and their beliefs isn’t really the issue.
The issue is, anybody against Putin gets banged up without cause.
Their failure is not that they protested, it’s they protested in a stupid way that left themselves open to charges and jail-time. That said, the case turned into idiot vs idiot, as giving them anything other than a suspended sentence hands ammunition over to those opposed to Putinville..
I think you will find they protested on pro gay rights which is why they are in prison Not against it, I don’t know about anti Jew
B Lowe , I just read up on them and they support gay rights. It’s in their lyrics and they have participated in gay pride parades. Where is your evidence in what you say?
They’re guitarist is cute.
Saw a movie recently about a women’s prison in Russia. They seemed happy but had great difficulty keeping their clothes on. Therefore I am sure they will be grand.
judging by the look of them id say being locked up with a load of women would be right up their alley
From a completely different angle… I bet sales of their albums are off the scales over there. They will make millions each while in prison. then think of the world tour they will get on release….
I dont even think the bleeding heart liverals whove eaten up their propoganda would stomach paying to listen to their drivel
And I thought the Yanks took religion too seriously, the Russians are worse now.
Putan ! As the French would say !
what a crazy ass country. love Russian women though.
Did they also organise a mass orgy in a public art gallery before? I read that somewhere before I think…..
mass orgy? how could you organise a mass orgy? would it not be the same as a regular orgy?
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