Vincent Rousselet observes that a growing body of literature is devoted to the measurement of human happiness in addition to the traditional economic metrics.

I don’t like peanuts. To coin a phrase, I eschew them. I have seen no quantitative taste tests, but watching people nibbling in bars suggests most people do like peanuts. So disliking them is just a personal quirk.

What’s the smartest business move you’ve ever made? Recognising that the sole pursuit of profit is fruitless. Serve customers well, treat your staff well and have fun. Profit is invariably the outcome.

I think it was Stephen Hawking who observed that the opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

THE ANGINA MONOLOGUES:

1/ Koalas bellow. 2/ Facebook hosts 4% of all photos ever taken. 3/ Victorian housewives made jam with carrots as a stand-in for apricots. 4/ Yawning cools down the brain