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• Socratic Club Event tonight!

• Addio ”The Happiest Man on Earth” [1]

• H&W movie suggestion from figlio mio. [2]

• How does a whistleblower or hacker determine whether it is wise to do so? Thinking of facebook whistleblower and hack of right wing media records.

• Algorithms for wisdom? [3]

• A potential wisdom story about an outhouse.

• Some research from Ethics class on our bias toward confirmatory thought. Perkins research on IQ and ability to generate “my-side” arguments.

• Cambridge Handbook on Wisdom.

• Happiness thought for the day. Do we "perform happiness" in social media?

• Unhappy, unwise. The Gabby Petito's murder.

• Eccentric happiness practices - The guy who rides through campus on a bike with a boom box.

• Pope’s response to abortion/communion issue may be wisdom. Or, permissiveness?

• An example of a school concept that tries to incorporate wisdom

• Happiness impacted by the pandemic. [4]

• This weekend's 9/11 memorials might be thought of as a kind of cultural wisdom practice which seeks understanding for difficult events.

• Wisdom 2.0 is a group making a particular kind of wisdom initiative. See the file share directory for an example. [5]

• Popular short video about some happiness research [6]

• Child tax credit may cut child poverty in half. [7]

• Momento Mori from Sister Aletheia (Sister Truth). [8]
• Pandemic surge in drug overdoses. [9]