In terms of his philosophical influence, only Plato is his peer. Aristotle’s works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance. A prodigious researcher and writer, Aristotle left a great body of work, perhaps numbering as many as two-hundred treatises, from which approximately thirty-one survive. By Sally MallamContributing Writer Plato’s student Aristotle studied …
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“The world we experience as ‘out there’ is actually a reconstruction of reality that is built inside our heads. It’s an act of creation by the storytelling brain.”― Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better By Sally MallamContributing Writer Paleolithic people had stories to tell. …
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As the climate warmed, food sources became more plentiful and population numbers grew. An enormous communal effort and new inventions were required to assist and impress the spirit world to maintain cosmic and terrestrial harmony and prevent a return of the perilous Ice Age. This effort shaped the Neolithic Revolution – the beginnings of organized …
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Featured Book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power PublicAffairs, 2019 By Shoshana ZuboffReport by John Zada As artificial intelligence (AI) reaches new pinnacles of machine learning, spawning unprecedented consumer tools that will change of our lives for the better and worse, the ledger of …
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In Britain, about 1,300 Neolithic mega-sites appear to have been built within little more than a century. By Sally MallamContributing Writer While Stonehenge is definitely the most famous stone circle in the British Isles, recent discoveries reveal that about 4,500 years ago as the Neolithic era reached its end, as many as 1,300 Neolithic mega-sites …
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Education isn’t just about textbooks and classrooms. From coding to communication skills, at its best education equips learners with the tools needed to thrive in the job market as well as in other aspects of life. By Kathleen Mazor, EdD, MSContributing Writer Education can equip learners with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed …
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Featured Book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity Carl ZimmerHardback edition 2018 Our understanding of heredity has come a long way and holds much promise, but we’ll need wise judgement to manage the emerging science of genetic engineering. In this wide-ranging and extensively researched book, science writer Carl Zimmer …
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The “reality” each organism lives inside — whether it is our own or that of ants, cows and, for all we know, grass — is a virtual one. Each organism has evolved a sensory system and a nervous system to select what it needs to get through the day in its neighborhood. Robert Ornstein, PhD; …
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Bristol Pounds – and example of community currency. Currency is ephemeral and secondary; that it is the underlying mechanism of credit and repayment of accounts that is the essence of money. By George KasabovContributing Writer As we have seen, money in the current economic system is mostly created (out of thin air) by private banks as …
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Featured Book Returning to the Spirit in “Sacred Nature” Karen Armstrong Review by Farooq Chadhry As I sit down to write this, approximately one third of Pakistan is underwater due to devastating floods from monsoon rains. Before going on, I must ask you, reader, to sit for a moment and try to ponder what it …
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Featured Book Religious Evolution and the Axial Age From Shamans to Priests to Prophets Hardcover edition 2018 By Stephen K. Sanderson Reported by Sally MallamContributing Writer Why are there are so many different types of religion and how and why has religion evolved over time? The answer lies in both our biological and our sociocultural …
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“The advantage of such shortcut responding lies in its efficiency and economy; by reacting automatically to a normally informative trigger feature, an individual preserves crucial time, energy, and mental capacity. The disadvantage of such responding lies in its vulnerability to silly and costly mistakes.” Robert Cialdini David Sobel, MD, MPH, and Sally MallamContributing Writers As we’ve …
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