A Black Hole Mystery Wrapped in a Firewall Paradox Perhaps space-time emerges from quantum entanglement

When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart ‘It turns out, feeling powerless boosted the mirror system — people empathized highly. But, Obhi says, “when people were feeling powerful, the signal wasn’t very high at all.”‘

Interview with Beasley Reece about racist speech

The Hidden Work Of Culture “When one is confronted by lots of choices, and has to make them to navigate through the day, mental fatigue sets in, and one falls back on instinct or custom, simply as a matter of coping.”

True Paleo diet includes lots of larvae

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Return of the Jesus Wars “both authors explore just how radical the actual Christian revolution was, how it upended the ancient world’s violent, patriarchal, hierarchical norms, and how many liberal, modern and egalitarian attitudes are indebted to early Christian zeal.”

The Politics and the Science of Disputing Evolutionary Psychology | The American Conservative “certain strands of conservatism have welcomed the insights of evolutionary psychology because they reinforce the conservative intuition that human beings are not as malleable as the many on the Left want them to be”

Stoogecraft “No, the challenge all three Stooges face is that they do whatever comes into their minds, immediately. If they want to lash out or poke or twist, they do. If they think it might be effective to make money running a plumbing company, they don’t consider, they merely do it.”

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