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27 Aug 09

Study Demonstrates How We Support Our False Beliefs

  • voters' ability to develop elaborate rationalizations based on faulty information,
  • people get deeply attached to their beliefs
22 Jul 09

How cult of celebrity destroys our souls: The man in the mirror

  • He was infected by the moral nihilism and personal disintegration that are at the core of our corporate culture
  • He was a reflection of us in the extreme.
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16 Mar 09

Origins of Agriculture - Did Civilization Arise to Deliver a Fix? -- Signs of the Times News

  • Large, hierarchically organised societies appeared, centred around villages and then cities. With the rise of civilisation and the state came socioeconomic classes, job specialisation, governments and armies.
  • If agriculture provides neither better diet, nor greater dietary reliability, nor greater ease, but conversely appears to provide a poorer diet, less reliably, with greater labor costs, why does anyone become a farmer?'
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03 Mar 09

Psychopaths' 'early release con'

  • "Research by several groups internationally has established that such professionals generally are no better than laypersons in detecting deception, at least without specialised training.
  • "Psychopaths are so adept at "putting on a good show" and using crocodile tears that they can be convincing to psychologists as well as other professionals.
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