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Why are some people trustworthy while others cheat and lie, some generous and others coldhearted louts? Part of the answer may lie in the hormone oxytocin. In an excerpt from The Moral Molecule, Paul J. 
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Ernest Callenbach, author of the classic environmental novel Ecotopia among other works, founded and edited the internationally known journal Film Quarterly. He died at 83 on April 16th, leaving behind this document on his computer.
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COMUNITY > This commune in Portugal is right up BP´s alley, maybe for his final days?
"The original community of human beings was not the family but the tribe. The community is the bed for all human life including family. Community is the organ of the whole which had been wounded the most. If we want to put into practice a sustainable ecological humanism we have to re-develop its foundation: a place amongst humans where children, men and women feel at home. From this base a stable peace and an authentic ethic
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Qwiki, the start-up known for creating automated multimedia presentations, is launching a new media format that allows publishers, bloggers, web personalities and others to create 60-second video stories that are embedded with other videos, images,...
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Human emotions are highly contagious. Seeing others' emotional expressions such as smiles triggers often the corresponding emotional response in the observer. Such synchronization of emotional states across individuals may support social interaction: When all group members share a common emotional state, their brains and bodies process the environment in a similar fashion.
Via Edwin Rutsch
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"In November 2009, boyd traveled to New York City to deliver what she expected to be a major address at the Web 2.0 Expo, one of the year’s most important gatherings of Internet professionals. Her topic was what she terms “living in the stream,” or how not to drown in the flood of information that comes at us all the time. Teens, she believes, are especially good at this. The most web-savvy of them manage to stay open to all the digital stuff without having to process everything. They take what they can handle and remain untroubled that much may elude their grasp. It’s a kind of cyber-Zen. “The goal is . . . to be peripherally aware of information as it flows by, grabbing it at the right moment, when it is most relevant and valuable, entertaining or insightful,” she said at the Expo. “It is about a sense of alignment, of being aligned with information.” She talked about the high some Twitter users get “feeling as though they are living and breathing with the world around them, peripherally aware and in tune, adding content to the stream and grabbing it when appropriate.”" Via Howard Rheingold
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TED Talks Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change.
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these guys are brilliant! - jero
http://thejuicemedia.com RAP NEWS episode 9. 2011 hits harder than a pre-apocalyptic hangover as "the economy" threatens to annihilate our stock-piles of ima...
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This episode focuses on the Gnostics. Who were the Gnostics and what did they believe? Ill be interviewing John Lamb Lash, the author of Not In His Image Gno...
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In the 200,000-year history of anatomically modern humans, the cerebral hemispheres have a long history of productive co-evolution. The inclusive and empathic right hemisphere is attuned to the social and emotional sounds of speech, to music, all the subtleties of relationship and holistic processing. The great skills of the left hemisphere are linguistic consciousness (the re-presentation of life in words), mathematics and motor control of the dominant hand (hence, the making of complex tools).
When you teach people to use awareness to intentionally focus attention, you not only change the function of the brain, you change its structure. That is the phenomenon of neuroplasticity. In other words, when we meditate, the brain is re-wiring itself.
Neurological integration in the brain is the linkage of differentiated parts, and this affects the functional relationship between the left and right hemispheres. Social relationships that honor differences while promoting linkages also cause the brain to become more integrated, and that looks a lot like harmony. The un-integrated state is characterized by chaos and rigidity.
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You have a choice. You can either watch one of the most amazing earth animations I’ve ever seen–a piece by Globaïa that gives you a front row view from space as the Industrial Revolution terraforms our quaint planet into a global metropolis. You’ll see the rise of roads, shipping routes, underwater cabling everything else that’s part of Facetiming from halfway across the world or stocking your local Whole Foods with produce that our grandfathers probably never saw with their own eyes.
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On a deeper, mystical level, our true reality is that we are all one energy field experiencing ourselves as separate and that we manifest our greatest potential when we co-operate according to common goals. To understand this is profound esoteric knowledge and it is knowledge that scares many who think themselves to be separate and either superior or inferior. But, truthfully, it is the only path to survival as we create ever-greater scarcity by mining ever deeper for raw materials to build that which we do not need to sustain an inferior system.
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I was considering 'non-duality' to be another way of describing the 'classical' mystical experience of 'transpersonal Oneness' that occurs with the complete dissolution of Ego and Identity ('the loss of all opposites'), I decided to talk about a subject that I had been thinking about more recently, namely the correlation between the effect a 'drug' has on the Ego
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...and proceeds to poo all over it. Best thank you speech ever -jero
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Atheists and others who don’t adhere to a religion often say they can be good without God. Now, three new studies appear to back them up.
“Across three studies, we found compassion played a much bigger role in the way that less religious people treated others. Religious people, in contrast, tended to behave as generously as they would regardless of how compassionately they felt.” At the same time, Willer said, the view of nonreligious people as cold and amoral needs adjustment. “We find that nonreligious people do feel compassion for others, and that those feelings are strongly related to whether they choose to help others or not.” Via Edwin Rutsch
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Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek analyzes recent socio-economic events (as only he can) on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! program. 10/1...
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What is the value of something that doesn't have a price? That is the fundamental question raised every week at Karma Kitchen, a volunteer-run restaurant in Berkeley. Based on an experiment in generosity, guests are presented with a $0 bill at the end of each meal. Founder and volunteer Nipun Mehta explains how the opportunity to pay it forward for the next person opens our innate compassion and builds true community.
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GAMIFICATION > BADGES FOR WORDPRESS BadgeStack is an innovative system with a game-like approach that assesses skills, recognizes learner achievement, sparks community, and excites learners of all ages.
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Amazon.com: The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society (9780521295611): Richard Borshay Lee: Books...
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Text from Bruce Chatwin's book Anathomy Of Restlessness by Sul Sousa in Travel...
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This feature documentary is an experiential journey into the mystical practices of Japanese mountain asceticism. In Shugendô (The Way of Acquiring Power), practitioners perform ritual actions from shamanism, "Shintô," Daoism, and Tantric Buddhism. They seek experiential truth of the teachings during arduous climbs in sacred mountains. Through the peace and beauty of the natural world, practitioners purify the six roots of perception, revitalize their energy and reconnect with their truest nature — all while grasping the fundamental interconnectedness with nature and all sentient beings.
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Scientists are looking into various medical and psychiatric uses for psychedelics. Could the taboo be ending?
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