Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong. So then, why are we happy? Watch this video and find out…

Psychologist Dan Gilbert challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel real, enduring happiness, he says, even when things don’t go as planned. He calls this kind of happiness “synthetic happiness,” and he says it’s “every bit as real and enduring as the kind of happiness you stumble upon when you get exactly what you were aiming for.”

(Props to Free Will Astrology for this link.)

I love it when the world provides us with a fabulous example of why it’s just plain silly NOT to be a reincarnationist…

Czech speedway rider knocked out in crash wakes up speaking perfect English

By CHRIS BROOKE – More by this author »

When Matej Kus’s teammates heard him talking after he was knocked out in a speedway accident, they were relieved he was conscious.But they were also a little surprised.

For although the 18-year- old Czech knew only the most basic English phrases, he was conversing fluently in the language with paramedics[…]

Click here for the entire article from The Daily Mail.

Here’s an odd bit for you – Now, tell me, why on earth would a teenage girl fake this? I don’t know a single teenager who would prefer being tested over and over in a lab to going out with friends or defying authority figures, do you? However, the little kid in me can certainly relate to asking to be born with cool x-ray vision in my next life!

Can a seventeen-year-old girl truly “see” inside a person’s body? Ray Hyman and colleagues conducted tests to search for the truth inside The Girl with X-Ray Eyes.

Read the complete article here from The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.