February 21, 2013

Just letting kids play can give you happier children. A new study found that hovering mothers who try to tell their young children how to play with their toys can turn kids off. The happiest children had the least amount of interference from mothers who were gently encouraging. Source Link

The bionic eye is within sight now that regulators have approved a new device that can help the blind see again. It uses an eye implant linked to special glasses to allow limited vision for some forms of blindness. Subjects with retinitis pigmentosa could see objects, and some could even read newspaper headlines. Source Link 

 
What places in America have a serious case of happy tweet? Researchers looked at words in Twitter messages that were rated on a happiness scale and found the most joyous state was Hawaii and the happiest city was Napa, California. On the other end, people in Louisiana had the blues and Beaumont, Texas was in dire need of more “LOL’s”. Source Link