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Beau Lotto – Optical Illusions Show How We See
While the subject of “illusion” has been broached several times before within the pages of this blog – see “The Illusory Atom” and “Probably The Best Optical Illusion I’ve Seen In A While… And The...
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Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger Of A Single Story
In a world populated by meme machines… Meme machines who are a lot more susceptible to being indoctrinated with rather bizarre ideals than most of them care to ever believe, let alone admit i.e. see...
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Can Science Answer Moral Questions?
What a great TED talk! Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can — and should — be an authority on moral issues,...
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Craig Venter Unveils “Synthetic Life”
The time has arrived… Synthetic life is no longer science fiction. It is now a ‘reality’ here on Earth… And man is its creator. In many ways this is an interesting piece of the puzzle as to how life...
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How Humans Mirror Monkey Irrationality
Well… It’s come up before, in The Human Ape, just how similar we all are to our primate brothers/cousins. However, I am still always surprised at how many of my fellow human beings seem to want to...
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Nic Marks On The Happy Planet Index
Yesterday morning, while writing the blog about Ecological Buddhism, I Stumbled over this pretty inspiring TED talk. Bearing in mind the somewhat heavy vibe of the four Nature articles that I used for...
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Animations Of Unseeable Biology
. . . I’ve written a little bit before on what life actually is… On how ‘we’, as human beings, are beginning to figure out how life, as we know it, arose from a sea of seemingly non-living molecules…...
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Daniel Goleman On Compassion
. . . Bearing in mind the recent posts here that relate to the notion of a “self“… And thinking about our strongly ingrained consumeristic tendencies in this multimedia age of memetic supremacy… Not...
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