c'mon get happy

Happiness is easier to catch than the common cold, NBC News and the Los Angeles Times are reporting. This comes after 5,000 people were tracked for decades in the Framingham Heart Study. 

"Your emotional state depends not just on actions and choices that you make, but also on actions and choices of other people, many of which you don't even know," said Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, a physician and medical sociologist at Harvard who co-wrote the study.

Face-to-face contact is the way you catch it and friends and family have to live within a mile. There's always a catch. This time, it's a good thing!