The Science of Happiness, with Laurie Santos

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How do you know you’re happy? How can you be happier? Neil deGrasse Tyson, co-host Negin Farsad, and Laurie Santos, PhD, psychologist and host of The Happiness Lab, investigate the science of happiness.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.8	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:12.9	This is StarTalk on your host, Yolda Grass-Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.6	And this is a cosmic queries edition on a subject I think about which we all care or should
0:27.1	care. And that's the science of happiness.
0:30.8	And we got one of our happy co-hosts to join me, Nguyen Pharsad.
0:34.3	Nguyen, welcome back to StarTalk.
0:36.7	Hi, Niel.
0:37.7	I'm so happy.
0:38.7	Happy face.
0:39.7	That's a happy face.
0:43.2	You are host of the podcast Fake the Nation.
0:45.5	And I recently appeared on that podcast.
0:48.3	I enjoyed it.
0:49.3	Thank you for having me.
0:50.3	Niel, you killed it.
0:51.3	People still write me about that episode.
0:53.3	Oh my God.
0:54.3	Well, thank you.
0:55.3	Thank you.
0:56.3	And also the author of the funniest book title I've ever seen is how to make white people
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