HITCHCOCK'S DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS

Who would have guessed, uh?

OUR OTHER HALF

Another interesting study on creativity and insight on Big Think:

http://bigthink.com/humanizing-technology/undisciplined-the-creative-insight-of-the-outsider?utm_source=Big+Think+Weekly+Newsletter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=695f3944b5-The_Creative_Insight_of_the_Outsider5_4_2012&utm_medium=email

I quote:
"Numerous studies (...) are honing in on inspiration as a function of the right hemisphere of the brain – the less literal half that exceeds at making associations between things that don't obviously go together.
(...)
It turns out that sitting around waiting is definitively the wrong way to trigger right-brain creative activity. What gets the alpha waves flowing, facilitating the semi-dream-state in which we're best able to connect those unlikely dots, is a change of scenery"

SPRING AND COLOUR

Spring at last!
I took this photo while strolling under the sun. Life seems better with sun and flowers, doesn't it? It's all a question of perception - see my previous post of Rory Sutherland's TED Talk.

CYCLECHIC

Let's make Lisbon as cool as Copenhagen!
Esther posted about joggers, this one is about cycling.

http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com/2012/05/four-gents-five-hats.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CycleChic-CopenhagenGirlsOnBikes+%28Copenhagen+Cycle+Chic+-+Bike+Advocacy+in+High+Heels%29

PERCEPTION AND REALITY

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/rory_sutherland_perspective_is_everything.html

A brilliant TED Talk by Rory Sutherland.

Jog to live longer

A long-term research project, in which 2000 Danish joggers were followed since 1976 by cardiologists (amongst others), shows that jogging for a minimum of 1 hour a week could increase our lives with years. Also interesting is that slow or average paces seem to be enough!
Read more about this Copenhagen City Heart Study at http://www.escardio.org/about/press/press-releases/pr-12/Pages/regular-jogging-increases-life-expectancy.aspx