Twelve Critters Who Are Experiencing Pure Bliss

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The furry critters who live all around us are looking forward to a new year full of fun, food and friends, and they're so happy they can hardly contain themselves!

Animals aren't generally very good at hiding their emotions, so when they're upset everyone knows it, but when all is right in their world they can't help but smile the day away

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There's something about seeing an animal in the throes of pure, unadulterated bliss that makes everything seem right in the world, and their love of the simple things serves as a reminder of what's really important in life- yummy snacks!

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We humans often rush through life trying to carve out our own happy place, but in the process we lose touch with the simple things that used to make us happy, like swinging or rocking the day away on the playground

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You say you don't have a playground or a rocking horse available? Take a note from this adorable Philippine Tarsier- find the nearest tree and climb it, because your happiness may be stuck up a tree!

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Loneliness got you down? Maybe you need more friendship in your life, because nothing lifts the spirits like goofing around with your best bud

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The beauty of a best friend is they're not just there to goof around- they also make a mighty nice snuggle buddy when you're feeling a bit sheepish

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Snuggliness comes quite naturally to furry critters, and for many animals sleeping is a fast track to a feeling of pure bliss

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For other animals there's nothing like scurrying and scampering around to make them smile, because for them happiness is the freedom found in a field full of flowers

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Freedom means never having to worry about what people think about you, and those who are happy and free can't help but kick up their heels, even if they're dancing with themselves

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Happiness doesn't have to be a two mammal sport, but bringing someone along with you on the happy train to Bilssville can lead to fun adventures you'll be talking about for the rest of your life!

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We hope these blissful beasts have shown you how easy it can be to find your own happy place in life, but if you're having trouble turning that frown upside down it might be time to get a friend to lend a helping hand!

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Funny, he starts by mentioning how complex things don't always fit neatly within our brain, but then goes on to try to make clear-cut boundaries between the terms. Unfortunately science isn't that easy to pigeonhole, and scientists as a result don't use the terminology that neatly. You can occasionally find cases where something is called both a law or theory depending on the author. The boundary between hypothesis and theory is not as simple when the hypothesis is built upon well tested regimes of previous theories, so the new idea effectively matches past tests of the theory it extended. Observations often depend on other theories and assumptions.

Anyway, I think trying to ascribe specific definitions to those words often misses the important points. Inductive logic never results in absolute truths, as you never test every possibility. Statements in science, like most things, just come in a giant spectrum of confidence. That confidence shifts with each new observation, prediction and competing idea, but it rarely jumps discretely from one category/label to another.

Unfortunately, having some sense of where a theory falls on the confidence spectrum usually involves learning some of its history, what observations it is based on, and what alternatives are being pursued. That takes a lot more effort than just looking at its name.

Anyway, I don't mean to be negative about the video, as it is still roughly how those words are used. But it reminds me of oversimplifications that were in primary school textbooks, which do a good job of teaching the gist of a topic, but sometimes can be counterproductive when the person stumbles over a more complex case.
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