Featured Book Social Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect Matthew D. LiebermanPaperback edition 2014 Featured Book Our brains are wired for connection, mind reading, and harmonizing—the social and cognitive functions that ensured our survival and continue to drive our behavior. Understanding these neurocognitive mechanisms is essential for reorienting and improving ourselves and our institutions …
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Our Moral Endowment Humans evolved with innate abilities that help us live together in diverse groups. Studies show that infants are born with a foundational appreciation of the minds of others. From a very early age, babies begin to demonstrate innate cooperative and helpful tendencies, a capacity to tell kindness from cruelty, a rudimentary sense …
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Thomas Eakins, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Some unconscious connections aren’t just metaphorical but are grounded in how we perceive and interact with our world. We automatically associate “high” with good — and, of course, “good” with “God.” Robert Ornstein, PhD; David Sobel, MD, MPH; and Sally MallamContributing Writers The content of this section, unless indicated, …
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Psychosocial factors play a major role in who gets sick, the course of their illness, as well as recovery. By David Sobel, MD, MPHContributing Writer The focus of modern Western medicine has been largely on intervening in the body’s machinery with drugs and surgery. Nonetheless, psychosocial factors play a major role in who gets sick, …
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Featured Books A Contemporary Look at the Nature of Religious Experience By George Kasabov An exploration of two recent books on the subject: How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures, by Robin Dunbar, and GOD 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God, by Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein. …
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Featured Book The Axemaker’s Gift Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture James Burke and Robert OrnsteinPaperback edition 1997 Each time the axemakers offered a new way to “cut and control” the world to make us rich or safe or invincible or knowledgeable, we accepted the gift and used it. And when we …
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Featured Book Healthy Pleasures Robert Ornstein and David SobelPaperback edition 1990 Imagine a medical treatment that can help lower your blood pressure, decrease your risk for heart disease and cancer, boost your immune function and block pain. It’s safe, inexpensive and readily available. The main side effects include feeling good, an increased sense of well-being …
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The poor live with lawlessness, poor nutrition, low quality of education, and have so little cash reserves that simple mistakes or health problems can have devastating consequences. The poor live with lawlessness, poor nutrition, low quality of education, and have so little cash reserves that simple mistakes or health problems can have devastating consequences. The …
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Featured Book The Future Six Drivers of Global Change Al GorePaperback edition 2013 The global economy, a global “mind” powered by the internet, a shifting global power structure, unsustainable growth, breakthroughs in life sciences and the threats to our ecological foundations are converging to present an unprecedented challenge and opportunity. Can we muster the collective …
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Against a background of continuous strife, innovative thinkers came from both the eastern and western regions of the Greek world. Only fragments of their original writings survive, and our information about them comes from later philosophers such as Aristotle, who called them “Investigators of Nature”. By Sally MallamContributing Writer They used prose not poetry as …
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Featured Book Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels Ian MorrisPaperback edition 2015 Reviewed by George KasabovContributing Writer How has the amount of energy that could be captured in each stage of human development affected our values and attitudes to fairness and justice? What can we can learn about humanity by looking back to long before there …
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