Imagine Your Own Magical Object

A list of magical objects from the world’s myths, from Freyja’s Falcon Cloak, which allows you to turn into a falcon and fly, to Tezcatlipoca’s Smoking Mirror, with which he could see the entire universe.

Don’t Leave Joy to Chance

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin Seligman

You May Not Realize How Beautiful This Planet Is

Ten Geological Wonders You Didn’t Know About

Just in Case You’re About to Get Too Happy

Despondex, a Treatment for the Chronically Cheery. A step forward in the battle against exuberance.

The Pronoia of Technology

How Twitter can make history

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

What Will They Think of Next?

A TV show about happiness? How could that be?

Creative People Are Working Behind the Scenes to Find Better Ways to Do Things

High altitude wind machines could power New York City

How to Thrive when the Official Story Says You Can’t

Free Fruit Tastes Better: The Underground Fruit Economy

For Pronoia’s Sake, Fall in Love With a Mystery

The Truth Is Out There, and the Nation’s Maddest Scientists Are After It

Dare to Be Yourself

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod