Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
LAMEDVIDA, the medical league that studies happiness
A Brazilian university health league researching happiness and lifestyle medicine through teaching, scientific work, and community outreach.
Why it surfacedLAMEDVIDA argues that happiness is missing from medical education, then gives the idea an unusually concrete structure: seven lifestyle pillars, nine study fronts, nine scientific works, and four events or actions. Founded by health students and professors at UNEX in Vitória da Conquista, it is a memorable example of a small academic community turning a broad human question into a research program.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.