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You won't find consciousness in the brain - opinion - 07 January
Update, 3 June 2011: Raymond Tallis's Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the misrepresentation of humanity (Acumen) is out today. You can catch him the Cheltenham Science Festival, UK, on 7 June, questioning the prevailing wisdom that neuroscience and evolutionary theory are enough to explain human consciousness. And he‘s giving a lecture at the Royal Institution, London, on 7 July, covering similar ground and laying into what he sees as the dominant pseudo-Darwinian thought that defines what we are.
10 Worst Things Parents Do to Ruin Kids’ Social Lives Let’s face it, friends play an enormous part of our children’s self-esteem and success quotient for life. I’m often asked whether parents really can influence their children’s ability to make friends. My answer is always a resounding: “Yes!” After all, parents can be a tremendous impact on kids’ social lives, but they can hinder and even harm their children’s friendship chances as well.
Do Your Kids Accuse You Of Ruining Their Social Lives? | GalTime
Why do some clubbers shake it like a Polaroid picture while others prefer to perch on a bar stool? British psychologist Peter Lovatt, who has conducted rigorous field work in nightclubs, believes he can explain why some booty shaking is hot -- and some is not. It's all about your hormones.
Sexual Politics of Dancing: The Secrets of Looking Good on the D
The Beauty and Bane of the Serial Entrepreneur
At a Roundtable meeting, 3 out of 4 people in the room has started and built multiple successful businesses. They have a hunger for adventure and can NEVER sit still for very long. They’re also resilient and agile and nothing can keep them down. When confronted by a mountain or a vast brick wall, they’ll find a way over, they’ll find a way under, they’ll blast their way through, they’ll bribe the sherpa to take them around the back way, they’ll hire munchkins from the opposite side of the continent to infiltrate the enemy camp… but somehow or another, they’re going to get it done. “A feral organism is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to a wild state.
For every 300 Muscovites, there's a stray dog wandering the streets of Russia's capital. And according to Andrei Poyarkov, a researcher at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, the fierce pressure of urban living has driven the dogs to evolve wolf-like traits, increased intelligence, and even the ability to navigate the subway. Poyarkov has studied the dogs, which number about 35,000, for the last 30 years. Over that time, he observed the stray dog population lose the spotted coats, wagging tails, and friendliness that separate dogs from wolves, while at the same time evolving social structures and behaviors optimized to four ecological niches occupied by what Poyarkov calls guard dogs, scavengers, wild dogs, and beggars. The guard dogs follow around, and receive food from, the security personnel at Moscow's many fenced in sites.
Moscow's Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a M
Your Brain Can't Handle Your Facebook Friends
Ever heard of Dunbar’s Number ? According to British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, it’s the cognitive limit to the number of people you can be friends with. The number is 150, meaning your brain can only handle that many friends, and — shockingly enough — it also applies to Facebook. Even if you have thousands of friends, that number is really meaningless as far as true friendships go, Dunbar told Times Online.
Dear married men: Keep your distance - CNN.com
Editor's note: Audrey Irvine is a senior assignment manager for CNN. Her experiences in the dating world inspire her "Relationship Rant" column. Check back every week for her take on dating and relationships. Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- My friend posted this message as her Facebook status update: Maybe it's just me, but I am extremely uncomfortable with any married man calling me "just to say hi." Not good!
London is the global capital for “divorce tourism” with marriage break-ups involving foreign nationals accounting for a sixth of cases before the courts. The legal system is also witnessing a surge in disputes between the international super-rich over business deals, contracts, children and money, leading to worries about the widening gulf in access to justice with British taxpayers who more and more find themselves unable to afford to go to law. Inquiries by The Times have found: • a significant increase in international divorce, now estimated to involve 24,000 of the 150,000 divorces in England and Wales each year; • a dramatic rise in the number of commercial disputes, in which one or both parties were foreign. The percentage rose from 65 per cent in 2008 to 81 per cent in 2011; • a huge rise in cases involving “tug of love” disputes between parents t
The secret lives of married men - Times Online
Teens Susceptible to Reproductive Coercion - Newsweek.com
About a decade ago, Elizabeth Miller remembers seeing a certain teenage girl at a hospital clinic for adolescents in Boston. The patient thought she might be pregnant and asked for a test. When it came out negative, Miller started asking the standard questions, inquiring as to whether her patient wanted to be pregnant (she didn't) and whether she was using contraceptives (she wasn't). So Miller explained all of the birth-control options and, as she describes it, "sent her on her merry way with a brown bag of condoms." It was, by most measures, a pretty routine appointment. Except that, two weeks later, the same patient was back at the hospital, in the emergency room after her partner pushed her down the stairs.Dr. Feynman’s 6 Principles of Trendspotting | Digital Tonto
Is it possible to predict the future? Apparently, Richard Feynman could. He dreamed up some of the today’s most exciting technologies, like nanotech and quantum computing , decades ago.