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Using Your Mind to Watch Your Mind

Using Your Mind to Watch Your Mind from: November 10, 2015 at 07:31AM

What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? | NeuroTribes

What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? | NeuroTribes

7 Tools for Building an Infographic in an Afternoon (Design Skills or Not)

7 Tools for Building an Infographic in an Afternoon (Design Skills or Not) from: November 10, 2015 at 07:17AM

Why education is productive — a parable of men and beasts

Why education is productive — a parable of men and beasts “We know the paradox.  Education improves earnings but most formal schooling appears to be a waste of time.  Many economists claim that education is mostly a means of signaling quality. I view education as a self-commitment to being a more productive kind of person.  […]

Ancient arthropod brains surprise paleontologists

Ancient arthropod brains surprise paleontologists Scientists find ancient fossilized brains: “This brain organization closely resembles that seen in extant insect species, suggesting that the brains of certain arthropod species, such as the brine shrimp, regressed to less complex nervous systems as they evolved. The human brain is also partitioned into segments, most prominently during embryonic […]

Is Eating Animals An Act of Love?

Is Eating Animals An Act of Love? “When Jesus came eating and drinking with the sinners and the tax collectors, his radical notion of inclusion shocked the individuals who had long awaited his arrival History lends us to believe that eating a meal with one’s neighbor was as much of a social event then as […]

What KRS-One Teaches Us About Silicon Valley

What KRS-One Teaches Us About Silicon Valley from: November 8, 2015 at 07:11PM

What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing?

What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing? “Some mental operations which seem to me to rise to the level of developmental milestones”

How did animals end up with such bloated genomes?

How did animals end up with such bloated genomes? from: November 8, 2015 at 06:59AM

How To Make Love Last: 3 Secrets Backed By Research

How To Make Love Last: 3 Secrets Backed By Research from: November 8, 2015 at 06:37AM

Religion doesn’t make kids more generous or altruistic, study finds

Religion doesn’t make kids more generous or altruistic, study finds “The researchers also found that the more religious the family, the less altruistic the child. This pattern held up for all religions in the study.”

Why Ethics (Usually) Pays, and How to Make it Pay More

Why Ethics (Usually) Pays, and How to Make it Pay More November 7, 2015 at 04:51PM

Scott Alexander, Mental Underdevelopment, and the Three-Axis Model

Scott Alexander, Mental Underdevelopment, and the Three-Axis Model from: November 7, 2015 at 09:53AM

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You can't possibly fix every single problem in the world. Don't feel bad or guilty for only focusing on what's in your sphere of influence. — The Emotion Machine (@StevenHandel) November 6, 2015 via https://twitter.com/StevenHandel

The Value of Not Getting to the Point

The Value of Not Getting to the Point from Ken Arneson

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Best thing I've read lately about Grantland and making money in publishing these days. https://t.co/cDpVTfYzPN — Dave Studeman (@dastudes) November 6, 2015 via https://twitter.com/dastudes

Animation: A Binary and Its Planets

Animation: A Binary and Its Planets November 5, 2015 at 10:36AM

Formation of Planets in a Protoplanetary Disk

Formation of Planets in a Protoplanetary Disk November 5, 2015 at 10:35AM

NASA’s Hubble Finds Life is Too Fast, Too Furious for This Runaway Galaxy

NASA’s Hubble Finds Life is Too Fast, Too Furious for This Runaway Galaxy November 5, 2015 at 10:32AM

Flying Low over Southeast Greenland

Flying Low over Southeast Greenland November 5, 2015 at 10:23AM