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Not at all; did the headline have the book's title, "Stumbling on
Happiness" within quotes?
Googling the headline resulted in nada, while removing the quote mark at
the beginning and placing one just before the S resulted in ~ 300.
Incidentally he won 1k pounds.
>Does a phrase ever pass into your brain in such a way that it seems
totally,
>weirdly inscrutable? Then you catch on and feel foolish? Ponder this
verbal
>illusion:
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>"Daniel Gilbert receives Royal Society Prize for Stumbling On Happiness"
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>Well, in my defense, my brain thought it seemed like a rather specialized
prize,
>but accepted it as a typical example of English eccentricity.
>
>Laurent Hodges
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