{"id":2338,"date":"2010-02-15T19:06:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2010-02-15T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:06:07","slug":"presentation-9-ways-to-live-better-longer-happier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/02\/15\/presentation-9-ways-to-live-better-longer-happier\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation: 9 ways to live better, longer, happier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the interest of ensuring our readers live longer, happier lives, I bring you perhaps my favorite TED talk (of which I have many). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html\">In this talk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluezones.com\/\">Dan Beuttner<\/a> gives us 9 factors that he and his research team argue will extend and improve our lives.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PresentationZen\/~3\/epfLKf0RndE\/presentation-9-ways-to-live-better-longer-happier.html\">The Presentation Zen blog give us a nice summary of his key points<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not up on my happiness research, so I&#8217;m not certain how empirically valid all these findings are or whether &#8220;happiness scholars&#8221; view this work as an advance, but it certainly did give me things to think about.  As a political scientist and public policy scholar, I&#8217;m particularly interested in how these findings are converted into narratives that can yield better policy outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/DanBuettner_2009X-medium.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DanBuettner-2009X.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=727&amp;introDuration=16500&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=2000&amp;adKeys=talk=dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100;year=2009;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=might_you_live_a_great_deal_longer;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=what_makes_us_happy;event=TEDxTC;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the interest of ensuring our readers live longer, happier lives, I bring you perhaps my favorite TED talk (of which I have many). In this talk, Dan Beuttner gives us 9 factors that he and his research team argue will extend and improve our lives.\u00a0 The Presentation Zen blog give us a nice summary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}