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BiILLIONAIRE EGOMANIACS by Carol Wolman, MD A few egomaniacs are destroying our world. They are devouring our minds, our pocketbooks, our individuality. Some of them believe they will be raptured by Jesus, even though they are disobeying everything he...
by cwolman
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 03:58 PM PST
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Derek summarizes research on what is the best strategy to encourage niceness, forgiveness, generosity in people that are naturally self-interested. It turns out to be an eye-for-an-eye philosophy. Later winning models gave a little more forgiveness to...
by jasciu
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 09:19 AM PST
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October 12, 2023 by Netta Ahituv and Nadin Abou Laban In Haifa and Jaffa, joint Jewish and Arab patrols seek to prevent violence on both sides. In the south, Bedouin residents risk their lives to search for victims of Hamas terror. In the shadow...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 05:48 PM PDT
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Before you click out, know this: I’m not religious. Trained first as an experimental scientist, I spent most of my working life as a lawyer and law professor. I don’t believe in the supernatural, far less in a kindly old man (or lady) sitting up there...
by dratler
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on Mon May 29, 2023 at 08:56 PM PDT
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Why is everything so damned hard? No matter how successful you are at some thing, other things elude you. It's just the nature of life. But why? Why why why why why? Science gives us some glimpses of why things are not easy. The second law of...
by tampaedski
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on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 07:52 AM PST
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We humans stand on the precipice. We now face five existential threats, each unique in our short recorded history. First, we are running out of planet to plunder. So we are destroying the climate in which we evolved, likely irrevocably. Second, we are...
by dratler
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on Sat Jan 14, 2023 at 02:01 PM PST
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“We have met the enemy, and he is us.” — Pogo (main character from a long-forgotten late-twentieth-century comic strip) Today our species faces two existential crises. The first is climate change that we ourselves are causing, and that seems to be...
by dratler
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on Thu Sep 22, 2022 at 11:18 AM PDT
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Money is too often not just a part of the conversation, but is the center and deciding factor of the conversation. Too soon these discussions will be moot, as the runaway climate disaster becomes a ...
by NeverEverAgain
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on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
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A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦
Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul.
Please do share pics of your fur kids! If you have health/...
by plain truth
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on Thu Jul 28, 2022 at 10:45 AM PDT
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From the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper — www.chieftain.com/…, comes the following: Pueblo County Clerk and Recorder Gilbert “Bo” Ortiz joined a bipartisan group of clerks from across the state in Denver on Sunday to call on critics who have claimed that...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Apr 04, 2022 at 04:25 PM PDT
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Yes, this will be our future represented above on the spit. I have seen over the past couple of years a snowballing avalanche of comments stating we are past all turning points that matter, and are ...
by NeverEverAgain
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on Sun Dec 05, 2021 at 03:00 PM PST
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An argument for collaboration over competition Every month (or so) I attempt to describe, convey, orate, draw attention to and expose different ways capitalism harms�our species. I want to show how�...
by NeverEverAgain
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on Sun Nov 21, 2021 at 03:00 PM PST
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Consider this an article on the editorial page of any newspaper in America. Yes, it is an opinion, but I would insist, it is an opinion based on FACTS. Some of those facts are presented in the articles linked and some were from a broadcast on NPR. With...
by leftwisdom
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on Tue Sep 21, 2021 at 07:25 PM PDT
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For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before that date, click here. For countless millennia,...
by dratler
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on Sun Aug 08, 2021 at 12:12 PM PDT
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We know birds flock together, but what exactly do they do when they’re together? How much of that behavior is innate, and how much is innovated? Male manakins dance in groups to attract a single ...
by chloris creator
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on Sun Aug 22, 2021 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian, Druze, Bedouin, Circassian and more medical staff at hospitals across Israel have come together to call for peaceful coexistence and cooperation during trying times. Staff at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Rambam...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu May 20, 2021 at 04:08 PM PDT
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With all of the strife currently happening, I wanted to let you know that there is still light in this part of the world. “Music is the universal language,” as the saying goes, and Nazareth violinist Nabeel Abboud-Ashkar began putting this into...
by J Graham
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on Sun May 16, 2021 at 12:56 PM PDT
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BABB, Montana (AP) — On a cloudy spring day [last month], hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the [Piegan-Carway ] border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in...
by mettle fatigue
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on Fri May 07, 2021 at 11:41 AM PDT
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If you are not familiar with the work of Dr. Suzanne Simard, it could reshape the way we think about forests and the larger natural world. Let’s start with Darwin and the Theory of Evolution. For most of us, evolution has been portrayed as a giant...
by xaxnar
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on Sun May 23, 2021 at 09:54 AM PDT
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♀️ThisWeekInTheWarOnWomen: Teach Men2 Not Violate? Brain Science on Sociopolitics Shaping Behavior. Most of the news we’ve seen about teaching men and boys to not batter, not rape, not coerce or dominate, etc., involves academic curriculum changes and additions, or workshops from community organizations, faith-based institutions, etc. If true, easy...
by mettle fatigue
129 comments
on Sat May 01, 2021 at 04:55 PM PDT
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