Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man

concealment writes in with a story about a man who has been crowned the world's happiest. "Tibetan monk and molecular geneticist Matthieu Ricard is the happiest man in the world according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin. The 66-year-old's brain produces a level of gamma waves — those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory — never before reported in neuroscience. The scans showed that when meditating on compassion, Ricard's brain produces a level of gamma waves — those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory — 'never reported before in the neuroscience literature,' Davidson said. The scans also showed excessive activity in his brain's left pre-frontal cortex compared to its right counterpart, giving him an abnormally large capacity for happiness and a reduced propensity towards negativity, researchers believe."

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Ignorance is bliss

[PolygamousRanchKid]

Yeah, I know some bad programmers like that. They are always happy and positive . . . but never think about error cases . . . so they never code for them. After all, the world is a bright and happy place, isn't it? Why would a user hit the delete key, when the program asked him to press 'y' or 'n' ?

They are also the folks who say that they "tested" their program, when they really mean it ran once, in a simple scenario.

So that's grand that some folks can be happy while surfing their gamma waves. Some other folks can worry and deal with the problems of the real world.