Starting off: If you don’t like Mondays, you’re not alone. It’s the worst day of the week for millions of people, according to an analysis of Twitter messages by researchers at the University of Vermont Complex Systems Center. The researchers analyzed messages as far back as 2008 for happiness sentiment. They found that mood tends to improve during the week, peaking on Saturday before crashing again. Read more.
Conspiracy theory: It may seem like your iPhone starts to slow down when Apple releases a new version of iOS and prepares for the sale of newer models. But benchmarking company Futuremark says that’s probably all in your mind, CNET reports. Futuremark has released a new report showing performance results over time for hardware from the iPhone 5s to 7, dating back to early 2016 and iOs 9. Both GPU and CPU performance remains consistent over time, even with new iOS versions, the firm says. Read more.
Together through life: Strong social relationships boost a person’s chances of staying alive by 50%, according to a comprehensive 2010 review of 148 studies that followed 309,000 people for an average of 7.5 years. But as Bloomberg reports, Americans are more independent than ever, with nearly half of U.S. adults now single. Americans are waiting longer to get married, they’re having smaller families and about half of all marriages still end in divorce. Researchers are worried about what these trends mean for Americans as they get older. Read more.
