People Actually Want Fairness, Not Economic Equality “What we see from studies of children and studies of small-scale societies is an early-emerging desire for fairness, and a particularly strong motivation not to get less than anyone else. But we don’t find a smidgen of evidence that humans or any other species naturally value equality for […]

How the war on drugs creates violence “But there is also another, more subtle connection between the drug war and violence, pinpointed by economists Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi . As they argue, above-average homicide rates will result from low rates of successful investigation and prosecution of homicide cases. If you live in an environment […]

Physicist Lisa Randall on the Sublime, Our Human Quest for Meaning, and the Crucial Differences Between How Art, Science, and Religion Explain the Universe Randall: “The question each individual faces is whether religion or science offers a greater sense of control over the world.” If a religion is offering a sense of control over the […]

A lady working in the producer’s office told me that a child needs to see something incomprehensible and they’ll understand it later. I’d never thought about it that way. Hayao Miyazaki kenarneson.tumblr.com

Music in Human Evolution “The point of the AVID (of which the haka is the best example) is: *To intimidate competitors with loud sounds. *To intimidate competitors visually. *To project the image of a single, powerful organism. Remember, the AVID would have been used for confrontational scavenging as well as defense against predators — and […]

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