February 2012
102 posts
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“A life in science illuminates both the deep beauty of the world and the sheer...”
– David Eagleman
Random Oblique Strategies Online →
A Primer On Oblique Strategizing →
Why Your Race or Gender May Affect How Much Pain... →
Wow.
Blue Pill Or Red Pill? Time To Make Up Your Own... →
“The philosopher and writer Raymond Tallis reviews two of the latest...”
– New Statesman - The Books Interview: Nicholas Humphrey
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“He suggests that instead of asking whether the feelings and emotions we humans...”
– Survival Circuits In Animal Brains: What Can They Tell Us About Human Emotion?
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“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our...”
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
What Intelligence Tests Miss: The psychology of... →
Just-world hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free... →
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Nothing is Original
”Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and...
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Amartya Sen, "Universal Truths: Human Rights and... →
“Sometimes all you need is a change in perspective and the entire ways in which...”
Cranky today? Even mild dehydration can alter our... →
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Nothing like the First Time
The movies and books I love are great to re-watch. I glean something new if I take the time to do it, but there is also a sad longing I experience when I realize I will never be able to read a book for the first time again, or watch an especially moving film for the first time again. There is a certain beauty in that unfolding process that can never be recaptured. Whenever I read more about our...
WatchAdyashanti - True Meditation 1of3 (by Peace)
Why Books and Movies Are Better the Second Time |... →
The movies and books I love are great to re-watch. I glean something new if I take the time to do it, but there is also a sad longing I experience when I realize I will never be able to read a book for the first time again, or watch an especially moving film for the first time again. There is a certain beauty in that unfolding process that can never be recaptured. Whenever I read more about our...
“Every mystery ever solved has turned out to be… not magic.”
“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
– C.G. Jung
When women lead the world - Opinion - Al Jazeera... →
Steven Pinker’s new book, “The Better Angels Among Us” posits that the world would be more peaceful if women ran it.
Home : Neuropod podcasts →
From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined... →
LOL! Let’s box each other up and slap on the ole labels, shall we?
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John Horgan and Tom Hayden on... →
John Horgan, author of the book The End of War, has a great conversatoin with Tom Hayden, author of the book Sex and War. Hayden tries to hang on to a justification for violence being a genetic inevitable human trait. Horgan disagrees. This is the bonobo/chimp model differences in action. They discuss religion and war, as well as the use of rape as a weapon of war.
