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Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.

Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:

  • The Science of Happiness, in Kite & Key Media's Explainers

  • 80,000 Hours offers a free guide to designing your professional career

  • The spectacular wildlife images shortlisted for Wildlife Photographer of the Year

  • ⏭️ In brief

  • 🤔 Express Quiz

  • 💡Recommended by: Antonio Ortiz

The Science of Happiness, in Kite & Key Media's Explainers

Kite & Key Media is an interesting audiovisual project founded by Vanessa Mendoza and Troy Senik that offers a new explainer video every Wednesday, addressing topics of interest in a didactic way so users can understand them as clearly as possible.

This is how they explain their philosophy: “Modern life is mostly small bursts of information: tweets, posts, half-read headlines. Without context, however, it’s hard to know what to believe or who to trust. We sift through the best work being done by some of the world’s most respected thinkers — academic researchers, think tank analysts, authors, investigative journalists — to give you the context necessary to understand the issues that affect your life.”

The most recent video is The Science of Happiness.

The video explains the five pillars of happiness that psychoanalyst Carl Jung proposed 65 years ago, which remain fully relevant today, as highlighted by Harvard professor Arthur Brooks's books and lectures. Those five pillars are:

  • Maintaining good physical and mental health

  • Good personal and intimate relationships

  • Satisfying work and a reasonable standard of living

  • Seeing beauty in art and nature

  • A philosophical or religious outlook that fosters resilience

You can watch it here:

All videos include the complete script, sources used, and other related resources.

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80,000 Hours offers a free guide to designing your professional career

80,000 Hours is an international nonprofit project whose goal is to help anyone design a career with high social impact.

The project's name reflects the approximate number of hours in a complete working life. The project's creators see these hours as the main lever anyone has to try to improve the world.

The website offers a comprehensive, free ecosystem of resources. For example, users can consult or download a complete career guide divided into 12 parts, browse lists of key skills and how to acquire or improve them, or access other resources in the form of podcasts, articles, or frequently asked questions, among others.

Additionally, the project's promoters offer personalized advising, a job board, and examples of people who have reoriented their careers with their help.

The 80,000 Hours newsletter has over half a million subscribers.

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The spectacular wildlife images shortlisted for Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Which photo will the public choose this year as the winner of the British Natural History Museum's international wildlife photography award, Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Online voting to decide the Nuveen People's Choice Award is open until March 18, 2026.

Judges have selected 100 photographs from over 60,000 entries received this year. These hundred images are part of the exhibition now on view at the museum.

Among those 100 photographs are the 24 competing in the public vote. You can enjoy all these wildlife images—and vote for your favorite—on the website for this award, which has been running since 1965, over six decades ago.

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⏭️ In brief

🤔 Express Quiz

One of the links above mentions the State of Mobile 2026 report. Among the many data points it offers is the number of mobile apps that users utilize on average each month.

What is the average number of apps used per month by users?

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In the previous edition, we asked you about the market valuation that OpenAI reached last October. The correct answer was 500 billion dollars.

  • Name: Antonio Ortiz

  • Rol: Digital and AI analyst and communicator

  • Links: I'm most active on Error500.net and X (@antonello

  • Recommended link: Caroline Chang's YouTube channel, @Techno_Llama

  • Why?
    This recommendation is pure enjoyment. I've become a fan of DJs on YouTube—they're simple DJ sessions that can accompany you through an afternoon of work or play in the background, providing the soundtrack to a gathering with friends. Caroline Chang has a nicely varied channel, but above all, it's a great gateway into a genre born from pure digital invention.

     

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