Diabetes screening event in India. Photo via World Diabetes Foundation While countries have managed to decrease deaths from infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, stroke, mental illness and injuries are on the rise. By Margaret A. Caudill-Slosberg, MD, PhD, MPHContributing Writer While countries have managed to decrease deaths …
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Savelugu Girls Model School in northern Ghana. Photo: Lotte Ærsøe/Oxfam IBIS. Education is a powerful catalyst for change. Education can help lift people out of poverty, enhance health, and transform attitudes by providing essential life skills. All children deserve access to quality education, regardless of wealth or gender. Technology can improve access, but it must …
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Featured Book Thinking Big How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble & John GowlettHardcover edition 2014 Today we all exemplify, and our contemporary culture continues to be driven by, the same social brain — including the community sizes and levels of intentionality — that appeared with the earliest …
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Featured Book Moral Tribes Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them Joshua D. GreenePaperback edition 2014 We live in an age of historically declining violence and expanding kindness. But it doesn’t feel like that to most of us. Unprecedented global threats and conflicts demand advances in our ability to coexist peacefully. Joshua D. …
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Featured Book Before the Dawn Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors Nicholas WadePaperback edition 2007 Recent discoveries have enabled us to answer such long-standing questions about human evolution as: What was the first human language like? How large were the first societies, and how warlike were they? When did our ancestors first leave Africa, …
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Saint Augustine, Phillippe de Champaigne “The Greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.” – Robert Ornstein, God 4.0 Robert Ornstein, PhD; David Sobel, MD, MPH; and Sally MallamContributing Writers The content of this section, unless indicated, represents Robert Ornstein’s award-winning Psychology of Evolution Trilogy and Multimind. It is reproduced here by …
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The prophet Zarathustra, known to the Greeks as Zoroaster, lived about 1200 BCE, three hundred years before Karl Jasper’s Axial Age, yet aspects of what he taught transformed Aryan beliefs in a way that anticipated the Axial Prophets. His influence can still be seen in contemporary Judaism, Christianity and Islam more than 3,000 years after …
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The Hindus saw death as the passing of one’s own spirit into another new being, reincarnated in a continuous series of births, deaths and rebirths. Karma was like a physical law—what happens is a consequence of one’s own choice and behavior. An understanding grew that people are at different stages of their spiritual journey and …
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Featured Book Neanderthal Man In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante PääboReviewed by George Kasabov Neanderthals, our nearest cousin species, finally died out soon after 40,000 years ago. How are we related to them? When did we first branch off from them? Did we interbreed with them? How big is the genetic gap between our …
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Featured Book Summary of Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel Laureate in Economics who is a psychologist by training. He won the prize mostly for his work in decision making, specifically Prospect Theory. This book distills a lifetime of work on the engine of human thinking, highlighting our cognitive biases and …
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Throughout the world, Shamanic vision journeys display a similar pattern that cannot be accounted by communication or migration. By Robert Ornstein, PhD, Sally Mallam, and Doug Keefe, PhDContributing Writers Clottes and Lewis-Williams point out that although shamanic cultures are very different from one another, there are remarkable similarities that point to a basic human universal: the way the human …
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