Tag: society
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Money. Shells. (Is there value in value?)
Archaeologists show that the Chumash Indians had been using shell beads as money for at least 800 years. (1) Currency having value because of the value it has. We once used to think like that. Now our currency has value because of what we have decided. In a cosmos full of value, there is little…
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Can you love? Can you not understand?
To find out just how well the aging-in-community strategy is working, a University of Central Florida health management and informatics researcher examined three aging-in-community programs in Florida. Her study is among the first to examine some key variables for these programs. (1) Why do we need the old people? The simple answer does not compute…
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Die. It is for my own good.
Some worms are genetically predisposed to die before reaching old age, which appears to benefit the colony by reducing food demand, finds a new study. (1) Dying. For the sake of others. Why don’t you die? Do you wish to live? Unknown darkness. Dictating light. Unknown terror. Dictating pleasure. Petty humans. Living. For the sake…
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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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Societies… Cooperation… A lone man in the forest…
Researchers are exploring how cooperation arises in human societies, where people tend to cluster into various group types -- political, religious, familial, professional, etc. Within such groups, people can cooperate or 'defect' and receive payoffs based on those exchanges. Cooperation, they observed, is most favored when allowing for the existence of 'loners' -- people who…
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