It’s not always what you want and it’s not always right, BUT it is at least as good as your head when it comes to emotional response and relationships, and life is all about relationships. A study on gut-feeling as it relates to the longevity of matrimonial relationships indicates that it is a better predictor …
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1945 – 2013: Where has common sense gone?
From somewhere in the noosphere. It’s not all wrong now. But it’s not good or right either. But the humourous contrast below hints at the difficulties of implementing rules, laws, and even guidelines. Education in body and consciousness as well as mind, can resolve the dilemmas. (And it would be good if there were fewer …
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Rebirth of a dymaxion car.
The word dymaxion makes me think of a lattice-work of struts which form triangles which form hexagons, which form a sphere. The design is intimately associated with Buckminster Fuller. A mind ahead of his time. So the idea of a dymaxion car is intriguing. And then it turned out that even the frame is built …
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People said no to GMO, so now big agroindustry and pharma-chem businesses are engineering mutagenic food. Yum!
Mutagenesis isn’t new: Breeders have relied on it for decades to produce thousands of varieties of lettuce, oats, rice, and other crops. Pharma-chem companies sell high volumes of mutant breeds, ranging from wheat to sunflowers, in markets that reject genetically engineered seeds. It just doesn’t sound very nice and might even be a dangerous idea. …
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The “Syndrome of Disavowed Yearning”
It’s a weird idea, but something about disavowed and yearning had some truth in it. Sometimes you wonder if celebrities and successful people are happy. Sometimes it is easy to wonder if it is possible to have friends when someone is so popular or attractive. Life must be intense. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to imagine …
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You are what you eat.
It is really not easy to keep that trim figure of youth. In fact, often it disappears under th e rolls much earlier than you’ld like. I’m carrying an extra 10kg which I want to get rid of, but it’s hard. I’ve got to move more and I’m getting better at knowing what I’m putting …
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Doping lasts a lifetime. So should disclosure and cheating bans.
Research published in the Journal of Physiology shows that the benefits of steroid doping remain for life. Muscles retain a memory of what they did so that after a period of inactivity, when they are trained again they bounce back in to shape. The same behaviour is found in muscles of people who are more …
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What men really want.
It doesn’t hurt to ask the question “What do men really want?”, especially since wondering about “What women want“. A couple of articles seemed to shed some light on how men think (Doh!). Not 100% right for everyone, all the time, but a step in the right direction of knowing yourself. There’s pop psychology like …
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What women want. Love, desire and … something else.
It has always seemed that heterosexual relationships are fraught with tension that is stimulating when young and dissipates with age. Maybe that is because we are giving each other different signals, interpreting them differently or just because we want different things. It has always seemed that “guys just want sex” is a fair generalisation, and …
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Sadly, evidence proves privilege breeds corruption.
It is convenient to assume that people without resources are prone to unethical behaviour, especially if you’ve got lots of stuff. You might imagine that someone who lives in a cardboard box is likely to steal, simply because they need to eat. But the opposite is true. If you’ve got the stuff, prepared to be …
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