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June 10, 2025 - Dr. Robert Waldinger, Penguin Retirement Home and Lauren Stowell
Since 1938 researchers at Harvard have been studying the lives of hundreds of people and their families to discover what makes us happy. Some of the key findings were in the New York Times bestselling book, “The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness,” by Dr. Robert Waldinger and Marc Shulz. Now out in paperback, Dr. Robert Waldinger joins The Culture Show to talk about this research. He is the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development.
From there we get an overview of the New England Aquarium’s “retirement home” island for aging penguins. Kristen…
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