Category: Society
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This is deep...
A child passing next to a shallow pond of water at the edge of the street... "This must be very deep", it says to its parents as they walk together. "You cannot see the bottom of it", it says. And I smiled as we walked. Not at the child. But at the arrogance of humans.…
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Expert decisions…
Does a mass on a mammogram indicate breast cancer? Will Serbia be a member of the EU by 2025? Will there be more floods in Germany in five years' time? The diagnoses and predictions made by doctors, scientists, and experts often have far-reaching consequences. And in many cases, it is only years later that it…
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Harsh sounds…
Neuroscientists have analyzed how people react when they listen to a range of different sounds, the aim being to establish the extent to which repetitive sound frequencies are considered unpleasant. Their results showed that the conventional sound-processing circuit is activated but that the cortical and sub-cortical areas involved in the processing of salience and aversion…
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What is Being? A child's answer...
Once I asked a child what Being is... (Once I asked my self what Being is...) And the child answered... "It is just a word dad" (And I laughed...) And my dad was impressed... And the whole world of philosophy kept on going... Trying to figure out what Being is.
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Changed self. Life. Acting. Loving.
When thinking about the future, some people think they will change, and others expect they might remain the same. But, how do these predictions relate to happiness later on in their lives? According to new research from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), expecting ourselves to remain mostly the same over the next ten…
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