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I have been recording American Idol on my DVR, but I haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. I’m really not enthused about the show anymore after an incredibly lackluster last season. [...]
I heard an interesting theory a few years back when I first got into evolutionary psychology about how the cuteness of babies is a trait that helps babies to survive to adulthood.
According to the theory, at some point in human history there were both ugly babies, who instinctively repulse us, and cute babies, who instinctively [...]
Great post over at the gaping void. It’s a story about a guy who was great at his hobby, ended up making it into a career, and became a raging alcoholic that lost it all.
And here. supposedly, is the moral of the story:
“That’s why you should never turn your hobby into your job,” said [...]
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One goal I had with this blog was not to just talk at people like a know-it-all. What I really wanted to do was to create open and honest two-way communication with total strangers. I wanted to have a real exchange of ideas with people and learn as much from commenters as they [...]
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In Part 1, we focused on how human nature is driven by two primary drives, the drive of self-preservation and the drive to spread our genes through reproduction. In this part, we’ll focus on the role one particular aspect of our human nature, the tendency [...]
