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  On the Origin of Religion by Elizabeth Culotta | Science

  Every human society has had its gods, whether worshiped from Gothic cathedrals or Mayan pyramids. In all cultures, humans pour resources into elaborate religious buildings and rituals. But religion offers no obvious boost to survival and reproduction. So how and why did it arise? In my Origins ...

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  The internet is killing storytelling by Ben Macintyre | Times Online

  Narratives are a staple of every culture the world over. They are disappearing in an online blizzard of tiny bytes of information. Click, tweet, e-mail, twitter, skim, browse, scan, blog, text: the jargon of the digital age describes how we now read, reflecting the way that the very act of ...

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  Defining Wisdom | A Project of the University of Chicago

  The Arete Initiative at The University of Chicago has launched a $2 million research program on the nature and benefits of wisdom. Once regarded as a subject worthy of the most rigorous inquiries in order to discern its nature and benefits, wisdom is currently overlooked as a topic for serious ...

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  Don’t! The secret of self-control by Jonah Lehrer | The New Yorker

  Children who are able to pass the marshmallow test enjoy greater success as adults. (...) A researcher then made Carolyn an offer: she could either eat one marshmallow right away or, if she was willing to wait while he stepped out for a few minutes, she could have two marshmallows when he ...

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  Brain-to-brain communication demonstrated (video) | KurzweilAI.net

  Brain-to-brain ("B2B") communication has been achieved for the first time by Dr. Christopher James of the University of Southampton. While attached to an EEG amplifier, the first person generated and transmitted a series of binary digits by imagining moving their left arm for zero and their ...

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