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Reject all forms of degeneracy, man up and be the kind of father you wish you’d had.
Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills
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Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
In a study of healthy volunteers, NIH researchers have mapped out the brain activity that flows when we learn a new skill, such as playing a new song on the piano, and discovered why taking short breaks from practice is a key to learning.
The Consciousness of Invertebrates
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How Science Has Revealed the Inner Consciousness of Invertebrates
A Bowl of Rotting Peaches Before getting into the science, let me share a personal experience of the sort that may give one pause before concluding, as I suspect most do, that insects are incapable…
The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive Distortion
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The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive Distortion
We tend to judge the likelihood and significance of things based on how easily they come to mind. The more “available” a piece of information is to us, the more important it seems. The result is that we give greater weight to information we learned recently…
Forwarded from Spiritual Warriors
Illusioned by the material energy, people are so engrossed in subject matters for sense gratification that they have very little time to understand the question of self-understanding, even though it is a fact that without this self-understanding all activities result in ultimate defeat in the struggle for existence. Perhaps they have no idea that one must think of the soul, and thus make a solution to the material miseries.
Insights with Rene Girard
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Insights with Rene Girard
René Girard (1923-2015) has been described as the Darwin of the human sciences for his theories of the origin of violence and religion and the imitative character of human behavior (mimesis). His books, among them Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, span the fields of Literary Criticism, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, History, Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology. While his theories have attracted many devoted disciples, Girard has also sparked controversy for his sweeping general claims, tendentious readings of canonical works, and his explicitly Christian perspective. This panel discussion will consider the significance of Girard’s thought for the human sciences.
René Girard (1923-2015) has been described as the Darwin of the human sciences for his theories of the origin of violence and religion and the imitative character of human behavior (mimesis). His books, among them Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, span the fields of Literary Criticism, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, History, Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology. While his theories have attracted many devoted disciples, Girard has also sparked controversy for his sweeping general claims, tendentious readings of canonical works, and his explicitly Christian perspective. This panel discussion will consider the significance of Girard’s thought for the human sciences.
René Girard - Violence and Religion
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René Girard - Violence and Religion