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by mjklin 11y ago
It may be the case that a healthy brain is necessary for a healthy personality. It is not clear, however what follows from this. If a person's brain stops functioning normally, does he become less human? If a dolphin or monkey can demo
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Some examples from the book: > Below the world of worms and burrowing snails we may consider microscopic creatures like the ameba, who oozes along by pushing out lobes or ruffles of his single cell protoplasm and just flowing into them.
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For me at least, Murchie's book was a revelation. I was ignorant of the possibilities he discusses of "movement without muscles, sight without eyes, hearing without ears, smelling without a nose, thirst quenching without drinking,
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Does he take for granted that the mind == the brain? Because that seems philosophically tenuous to me. > For the body-mind interface, if any, is far from simple. Certainly the mind is not the only factor that organizes, unites or direct
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"Every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves." - Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change
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As a linguist (Geoff Nunberg) once said on NPR, it is odd for native speakers to hear foreigners using curse words, since you know their mothers never washed their mouths out with soap for saying them.
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I remember both Charles Dickens and Gilbert & Sullivan having quite the problem with this in the States. The opera Pirates of Penzance was first performed in New York rather than London in an attempt to establish copyright in the U.S.
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Adding to your point: in a tribal culture within a "state" that began as some convenient lines drawn by westerners, when your tribesman gets into political power it will be expected of him to reward his tribe with jobs and/or
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$ git push SEP-field
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"And that is why The Lord of the Rings can never be filmed!" Stumped ya Frinky. It didn't have to go down like this.
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After reading that book my imagination came up with a cartoon I doodled in my notebook. It was someone speaking at Minsky's funeral and saying "I know he thought my mind was just a bunch of simple machines like Builder, but he was
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In Canada there was even a Social Credit Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Social_Credit_Party
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One thing about NPR: they definitely know their market.
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Did the host get in trouble for this?
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Sartre remarked on the pleasure one gets out of this type of behavior: "I was, as it were, doubled. On the one hand, I was 'I'; Jean-Paul Sartre, you know, the person. On the other hand I was the chronicler of hell, the privi
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I agree with your analogy to other volunteer projects, but Wikipedia is certainly a special case. For a given article that is connected to an academic discipline, there is a good chance that it has at least one professional "babysitter
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Another factor in the rise of the big box stores was sheer visibility to the cars passing by at 55+ mph.
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> God being found in the cracks between knowledge See here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
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I would much rather the focus be on QUESTIONS than "thinking", which is an imprecise term. Isn't formulating and answering questions what "critical thinking" is all about? "Once you have learned to ask question
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There is Workflowy, which doesn't have all the features but works well for what it is (a zoomable outliner)
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I visited a Sudbury school once in Maryland, where most of the boys spent the day absorbed in video games. The teacher supported them, saying "this is how kids learn nowadays." For all I know, she may be right. But it must be diff
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Indeed, it is based on a well known psychological phenomenon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
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Your point about "Islamophobia" reminds me of this almost twenty-year-old article from The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/article/crazed-palestinian-gunman-an...
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Thanks for this explanation! So I will put Ms. Fadel in the same category as Mandalit del Barco, both of whom "over-pronounce" their own names.
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Not to mention Silly Names. Looking at you, Sunari Glinton, Neda Ulaby, and Olfebia Quist-Arcton. Speaking of names, why do the anchors pronounce the Egypt-based correspondent's name "Layla Fadel" while she pronounces her ow
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There is a revolution. It's called Library Genesis. Now if we could only make it legal...
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Funny, I just read this in the book The Logic of Failure by Dorner: > The information a newspaper-reading citizen receives about economic developments or the spread of epidemics, for example, lacks both continuity and constant correcti
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The users "felt betrayed" because they were betrayed. Isn't that a fair statement when a company makes a promise it can't keep about possibly precious data? I'm not understanding how they feel they can face consu
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I'm able to do this with Comcast, but the channels available look really bad on my tv.
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The book The Nuclear Bazaar made the point that the ex-Soviet guards of nuclear material are unusually devoted to their missions, even without pay. Also, the roads in those areas suck so transporting any material covertly would be a chall

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