back into the Dark Ages

Published on Dec 16, 2015
“It could plunge medicine back into the Dark Ages.” Overuse of antibiotics on Chinese pig farms has led to a strain of bacteria becoming resistant to the last effective antibiotic we had. And it’s spreading. Could this be the start to the post-antibiotic era? Find out more on this episode of China Uncensored.

happiness

What Makes Us Happy?

Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound insight into the human condition—and into the brilliant, complex mind of the study’s longtime director, George Vaillant.