How To (Still) Be Happy

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It turns out being happy, or becoming happier is possible with a bit of effort. We’re joined by happiness expert and host of The Happiness Lab, Dr. Laurie Santos to talk about her research into human happiness and to take your calls, including one from Mike from Colorado who asks, “Is there a genetic component to happiness?”

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, hello from the waning days of 2020. What a year it's been to exist, am I right?
0:10.0	If you're hearing this in 2021, hey, how's it going?
0:14.0	Hope a little better than the last nine-ish months.
0:17.0	We are working on a new season of science roles, but it's not hard work.
0:21.0	That's right. Interviewing all these cool scientists makes us honestly happy as clams.
0:26.0	And they are happy. You've seen them small.
0:29.0	Clams are happy.
0:30.0	They're so happy in fact that we wanted to share with you one of our very favorite episodes that we've ever done.
0:37.0	And it just so happens to be about cl-
0:39.0	No, about happiness.
0:41.0	Happiness. We hope you enjoy it.
0:43.0	We'll see you next week with a brand new episode of Science Rules.
0:47.0	This is Son. Hello? Hello?
0:58.0	We're all science people.
1:00.0	Science!
1:01.0	Exactly.
1:02.0	We know it's a good idea because it's lasted.
1:04.0	We could teach kids and they get it.
1:07.0	There's chemistry in here. There's biology in here.
1:10.0	It's in whiskey. It's an ice cream. It's in who you fall in love with.
1:14.0	That's the recipe for success.
1:16.0	We can make the world better for everybody.
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