There are many ways for people to be unhappy, but happy people have common characteristics. That’s why a good way to be happy is to learn the common characteristics of happy people and apply them.

The truth is, we all have the same amount of time, and it’s finite and in great demand. But some of us have made the time for doing the things we love doing, and others have allowed the constant demands and pressures and responsibilities of life to dictate their days.

Many are talking about the Social Graph at the technical level, leaving many business folks with many questions. The following, using clear business language (void of tech speak), will explain what is the Social Graph, why it matters, and what you should do.

Here are seven principles of Warren Buffet on living a life of simplicity and happiness.

Even with all of the water in the earth's oceans, we desalinate less than half a percent of it to help meet the world's freshwater demands. We currently use on the order of 4,000 cubic kilometers of freshwater a year, and overall there's enough water to go around. There is increasing regional scarcity, though.

Creating and editing knols. An overview of how to get text into your knol and some basic editing and publishing techniques.

Both mindfulness and psychoanalysis are disciplines of cultivating self-knowledge. They should not be mistaken or substituted for each other, but they can support each other. Mindfulness includes many forms but consists of being present in the moment and being aware of one's physical and mental experience in the moment. It is practiced often alone, with intermittent sessions with a teacher and in group retreats. Psychoanalysis was first developed by Sigmund Freud and has been continually revised in the past 100 years. It is both a science of human psychological life and a therapeutic practice to help alleviate human suffering and facilitate growth and development. What follows is a series of reflections about the relationship between the two disciplines.

Google has just launched Knol to the public, dubbed by many as the search giant’s Wikipedia killer. My first reaction: not so fast. While Knol offers a way for anyone to create content about any subject, there are a few big differences.

The turbulence of the U.S. economy has lots of people railing against capitalism itself, and with good reason: capitalism is inherently turbulent. That’s why the legendary economist Joseph Schumpeter called it “creative destruction.” Not only must eggs be broken to make an omelet, but sometimes people may decide they want their omelets made with no eggs at all.