The Secret

The Representation of Secret in Masnavi Manavi

        Being one of the significant mystic books, Masnavi Manavi has a prominent place in presenting ontology of human being. As though by its revelation, one can reach many mystic and human concepts. Some of the important issues in this work include knowing the secret and secret keeping. The most profound place in Masnavi is where secret and secret keeping are mentioned. Molavi, himself as a...

The Corporate Secret Identity

The Secret to Happiness

Which emotional experiences should people pursue to optimize happiness? According to traditional subjective well-being research, the more pleasant emotions we experience, the happier we are. According to Aristotle, the more we experience the emotions we want to experience, the happier we are. We tested both predictions in a cross-cultural sample of 2,324 participants from 8 countries around the...

The Secret Santa Problem

Consider a digraph where the vertices represent people and an arc (i, j) represents the possibility of i giving a gift to j. The basic question we pose is whether there is an anonymity-preserving “gift assignment” such that each person makes and receives exactly one gift, and such that no person i can infer the remaining gift assignments from the fact that i is assigned to give a gift to j. We ...

The Secret of Flight