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I spent 4 months in New Zealand in the winter of 2008/09. My main activity was hiking and I did all nine Great Walks and many day hikes. NZ is a wonderful place to travel with an excellent hosteling system … Continue reading →

In the winter of 2009/10, I spent 3½ months seeing most everything in this great country. The itinerary was determined first by the dates of music festivals. After they were calendared in, I made it a mission to do all … Continue reading →

New Zealand – The Trip Hiking New Zealand

The active compound in marijuana, tetra hydro cannibal (THC), was first discovered in 1964 by an Israeli investigator. He felt it odd that morphine was discovered in opium in 1805 and cocaine from coca leaves in 1855, but that scientists … Continue reading →

The goal of money is to make you feel secure, not to make you happy. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend. We all want to achieve the average North American’s goals of a nice … Continue reading →

The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in July 2006. The index is weighted to give progressively higher scores to nations with lower ecological … Continue reading →

Based on reported happiness and life satisfaction, equally weighted (Ranked from happiest to least happy. Negative scores indicate that a majority of the population is unhappy/dissatisfied with life) Country Denmark 4.24 Malaysia 2.61 Croatia 0.87 Puerto Rico 4.21 W. Germany … Continue reading →

Norway ranks number one on the UN Human Development Index.To the surprise of absolutely no one, Norway has been declared the world’s happiest country. Just as unsurprising, the Democratic Republic of Congo came last.The United Nations Human Development Index 2011 … Continue reading →

United Nations Human Development Index Subjective Well Being in 97 Countries Happy Planet Index

Japanese war crimes occurred in China, Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and other Asian countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily from 1937-45. Some of the incidents have also been described as an … Continue reading →