January 2012
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Prejudice In The Brain: Can You Break Your Biased... →
” One of the biggest problems with prejudice in modern society is that we often perceive people as being threatening even if they pose no real danger. So something that evolved as a protective mechanism in tribal society—when we didn’t often encounter “outsiders”—has become highly maladaptive. And left unchecked, it can fuel discrimination, fear, and...
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Prejudice In The Brain: Can You Break Your Biased... →
” One of the biggest problems with prejudice in modern society is that we often perceive people as being threatening even if they pose no real danger. So something that evolved as a protective mechanism in tribal society—when we didn’t often encounter “outsiders”—has become highly maladaptive. And left unchecked, it can fuel discrimination, fear, and...
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Why Travel Teaches Us To Appreciate Good Food →
“Travel and food go hand in hand. Why do you think there are so many destination specific foods topping the trend lists for 2012? Because food in itself is a form of travel, letting us explore no matter if we’re in the country of the food’s origin or thousands of miles away.”
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How Crowdfunding Saved 722 Square Miles of... →
“In 2007, Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, made an offer to the rest of the world. Underneath his country’s Yasuni National Park, one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, lie 846 million barrels of oil valued at $7.2 billion. If the rest of the world could provide Ecuador with half that sum, Correa proposed, the oil would stay in the ground and the rainforest above it would...
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“You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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The Holy Grail of Medicine: On the Mystery and... →
“Because so much of human disease is genetic in origin, and because stem cells loom larger all the time in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, stem cells will change the practice of medicine forever.”
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Are Newspapers Civic Institutions or Algorithms? →
” Rather than convincing people to support a newspaper out of a sense of civic duty, a better plan would be to convince people to pay for newspapers because they are simply the best algorithms we have for optimizing our busy lives.”
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The Philippines takes education to the streets →
“The Philippines’ Education Department has begun a roll out of so-called “pushcart classrooms” aimed at educating street children and out-of-school youth in the capital Manila.”
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Why Brilliant Women Should Be More Arrogant →
“Be an arrogant idiot is rule #5 of Mohr’s 10 Rules for Brilliant Women, a blog post that went viral last year, turning the writer and leadership coach into a minor internet celebrity (she has 3,538 followers on Twitter and her services are fully-booked). Each of the rules is a specific and actionable step in the process of advocating powerfully for your perspective. But...
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The Truth Wears Off →
“Is there something wrong with the scientific method? “
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George Steiner, a certain idea of knowledge →
“Literature, philosophy, science: today, our tools for understanding the world are developing separately, regrets the renowned intellectual and humanist. However, culture remains a saving grace, particularly in Europe. Excerpts.”
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A Literary Exploration of How Power Corrupts →
“This story is ‘about how the worlds of journalism and fiction writing are not as unimaginably different as one might think.’”
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Everyday Microethics →
“In search of a rationale to avoid making any New Year’s resolutions, I was glad to see that Princeton University Press has issued a book called The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits, by Emrys Westacott, a professor of philosophy at Alfred University.”
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“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde (via nirvikalpa)
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The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are... →
“Highly creative people often seem weirder than the rest of us. Now researchers know why”
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Help stop mining in Palawan →
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islandsmag:
This is very timely especially since the PH is re-launching its new tourism campaign. I am not against mining per se. But mining in an archipelago — one of the centers of the world’s biodiversity — is like taking away our core competence when in fact we can be a tourism superpower.
- Jayvee Fernandez
Read more of Jayvee’s thoughts on the ongoing campaign of...
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Ordering the vegetarian meal? There’s more animal... →
“The challenge for the ethical eater is to choose the diet that causes the least deaths and environmental damage. There would appear to be far more ethical support for an omnivorous diet that includes rangeland-grown red meat and even more support for one that includes sustainably wild-harvested kangaroo.”
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Apocalypse Soon →
“Prophecies of impending doom — based on hard science as well as Scripture — abound. Where does our appetite for retribution come from? “
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Science and the Chattering Classes →
“To speak out against the anti-scientific orthodoxy that prevails among large segments of the educated class is to make yourself the skunk at the garden party.”
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Crowd dynamics--The wisdom of crowds →
“The strange but extremely valuable science of how pedestrians behave”
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Scientists tickle animals to find laughter clues →
“Thought it was just humans that are ticklish? Think again - scientists are studying how animals respond to being tickled in a bid to shed light on how laughter evolved.”
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Capitalism and Loneliness: Why Pornography Is a... →
“One is the loneliest number, and in their personal lives, Americans are increasingly alone.”
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Mi Ultimo Adios in Filipino sign language →
” Ms. Mirana Medina, a Filipino independent advocacy film maker, did the first interpretation of Mi Ultimo Adios in Filipino Sign Language. This project helps in the campaign to spread Rizal’s work and at the same time emphasizes the worth of other sectors in our society such as the Deaf. “
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Books and Education for Peace ~ Akei | UP →
akeiph:
“For her awe-inspiring role in building libraries and countering the culture of guns with books and education in Mindanao, 17-year-old Arizza Ann Sahi Nocum recently received an award from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the National Library of the Philippines (NLP).”