Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness

The pursuit of happiness was at the heart of America’s conception. But the study of happiness, as a science, with random-assignment, placebo-controlled testing, is a far more recent phenomenon. Happiness and how to obtain it, has no magical equation, other then to "regain respectability for the concept of self-help". Read on (and several New York graphic designers offer their own riffs on the smiley icon)

via aldaily