Showing off an ability to critique content has become an epidemic. We’re losing the ability to enter the text and learn something.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/young-minds-in-critical-condition/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js
There’s always something jarring about chimpanzees. When you see a parallel to humans, you always wonder if it tells us something about our genetic wiring, or whether the similarity of our wiring just leads to a limited number of possible ways of living.
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/chimpanzees/chimpanzee-patrilocal-langergraber-2014.html//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js
“The inheritance of social status appears to survive great levellers like universal education, the welfare state, world wars and revolutions.”
I think he’s wrong. It’s not that “the compulsion to strive, the talent to prosper and the ability to overcome failure are strongly inherited”. It’s that kids learn from their parents what’s important in life.
http://www.abroadintheyard.com/rare-surnames-reveal-how-success-is-inherited-over-centuries///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js
Is this the key to out of the body experiences? Seems like a reasonable explanation. They might be a type of hallucination triggered by processes in the brain.
If we listen to The Buddha, we already know the Self is an illusion.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/inquiring-minds-jennifer-ouellette-science-of-self//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js