Yale's most popular course ever: Happiness
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3SXRW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rs1B8V4vx0
When Yale psych professor Laurie Santos offered a course in how to be happy -- based on the latest peer-reviewed science -- she hoped that a reasonable number of students would sign up (after all, the literature suggested that there is an epidemic of depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation among US college students); the course was the most successful in Yale's history, with one in four students enrolling (more")