Name: #168 Happiness Calculator vs. Alex Goldman by Reply All
Duration: 32 min 33 s
Description: Alex meets a scientist who has built a tool meant to do the impossible -- measure the world's overall happiness and sadness. Plus, Alex volunteers for a risky and strange experiment.

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#28 Shipped to Timbuktu

Pornography has been blamed for destroying our minds and our sex lives. Some even say porn is addictive. But, what does the science say? To find out Wendy Zukerman speaks to Dr. Russell Pratt, Dr Simone Kühn, Prof. Brian McNair and anti-porn campaigner Gabriel Deem.

Bonus reading: 

Anal heterosex among young people and implications for health promotion: a qualitative study in the UK http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/8/e004996.full

Erection Dysfunction Questionnaire: http://surgery.arizona.edu/sites/surgery.arizona.edu/files/pdf/SHIM%20score.pdf

Swiss Study on Erectile Dysfunction https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_0A179DC2D471.P001/REF 

Is Pornography Use Associated with Sexual Difficulties and Dysfunctions among Younger Heterosexual Men? http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12853/abstract

Pornography

We are often told that we can be happy, if we try hard enough. By shifting our mindset, changing our lifestyles, or even writing a gratitude journal – happiness is waiting for all of us! But, what does science say? To find out, science journalist Wendy Zukerman speaks to Prof. Paul Frijters, Ass. Prof. Dianne Vella Brodrick and Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas. We’re also joined by the author of The Happiness Myth, Jennifer Michael Hecht, as well as comedian Gen Fricker.

More information

Positive psychology interventions: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/13/119/ 

Subjective well-being and adaptation to life events: a meta-analysis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22059843 

A dark side of happiness? http://gruberpeplab.com/pdf/GruberMaussTamir_2011_DarkSideHappiness.pdf

HILDA Survey https://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/hilda/Stat_Report/statreport_2015.pdf   

Happiness

Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. But, most know him as the host  of the documentary series Cosmos and podcast StarTalk. Neil gained infamy as the killer of Pluto. For almost a decade, he has been the face behind Pluto’s demise from planet to dwarf planet. So, he gets a lot of hate mail from pissed off kids. Here, Neil talks to science journalist Wendy Zukerman about why he fell in love with space, representing minorities in science, the anti-science movement, religion and, yes, being Pluto's murderer.

NB: Wendy accidentally read out Neil's tweet about religion to say that he jokingly tweeted he was Greek Orthodox, when it should have been "Geek Orthodox". She's very frustrated both that she got it wrong, and didn't share an amazing pun. Sorry. It's been amended. 
More information

Mr Universe (The Saturday Paper) https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2015/08/01/mr-universe-neil-degrasse-tyson/14383512002184 

Neil deGrasse Tyson Australian Tour http://thinkinc.org.au/events/an-evening-with-dr-neil-degrasse-tyson/ 

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLtPWPqsjA

Pluto's not a planet? Only in New York (New York Times)  http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/media/pdf/Pluto's_Not_a_Planet.pdf


Neil deGrasse Tyson (Extended Interview)

On this week's episode of Reply All, PJ and Alex go outside.



#36 Today's The Day

A website for people who are way too high. Plus, could LSD unlock our better selves? Does PJ even have a better self? We investigate.

You can find Tripsit here: http://tripsit.me.
The floating orb lives here: http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/. 


#44 Shine On You Crazy Goldman

A 1990s pop hit reveals how the Adams feel about capitalism.

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#4 Tubthumping

The epic struggle of parents versus kids. Yummy versus gross. Humans versus broccoli!

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#6 Broccoli

Hi! Thanks to my fans & soundcloud for helping me get my login back so quickly. I wanted to post something now that it's back in my hands. Here's a cover of ~Voices Carry~. I've played it live a few times this year. It's always been one of my favorite songs but it's kind of deeply personal to me,lyrically. I recorded this in one day when a engineer had a room at Sunset Sound available.He let me use the studio for free as a favor, some of my friends came in and played the bass/guitar/drums for me after calling them 45 minutes before asking if they could try playing random stuff for me to work with/write on. Nobody has produced it (except me... I guess but this version isn't produced or mixed.It also doesn't have the synths & guitars I added today. I am out of the country so my computer keeps crashing.)I didn't want to wait until I was back to upload something. I have no idea what this sounds like in speakers either lol. This is what I call the infant demo because it's basically the scratch demo since it hasn't really been worked on & what not. It's also the only thing I can post without getting in trouble by other people involved on other songs.I promise I will be posting a lot more stuff on here & will let you know more about my album. I always feel a lot more comfortable sharing music related things here instead of Instagram etc 
thanks for the support 


I will give you one hint about one of my first two singles:

There's a fire on your street
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VOICES CARRY COVER INFANT DEMO

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Alex meets a scientist who has built a tool meant to do the impossible -- measure the world's overall happiness and sadness. Plus, Alex volunteers for a risky and strange experiment.

#168 Happiness Calculator vs. Alex Goldman

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