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la Grecia clásica, Aristóteles separaba las amistades en tres categorías: los amigos por utilidad , que son buenos en el sentido de que hay un interés mutuo y que no tienen ninguna connotación negativa, por ejemplo, «jugamos al tenis y nos tomamos algo después»; los amigos de placer, que son hasta el 80%, con los que uno se lo pasa bien, pero con
... See moreMariana Toro • Poner Fin a Una Amistad
Which then makes me realize that half of my effort wasn’t effort at all, but just unnecessary stress that made me feel like I was doing my best.
Derek Sivers • Hell Yeah or No: what’s worth doing
Pointing creates an invisible line between a part of your body and the thing you’re pointing at. Humans are really good at producing and understanding pointing, and it seems to be something that helps babies learn to talk, but only a few animals manage it: domestic dogs can follow a point but wolves can’t. (Cats? Look, who knows.) There are lots of
... See moreLingthusiasm • Look, It's Deixis! An Episode About Pointing
culture, anth, philosophy and science
Deixis pointing
El aburrimiento no tiene carisma. Carece del encanto de la melancolía o la gravedad de la depresión.
Esther L. Calderón • Pipas
We do communicate in various degrees and ways, with other animals. Such as through sign and body language with gorillas, chimps, dolphins, orangutangs and bonobos. We have techniques we use with dogs and cats. And parrots. We communicate with our fellow animals in more ways than we think. And animals watch us. Much more than we think.
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist • When Will We Talk to Other Animals?
In my research and reporting on change and uncertainty, I constantly found a pattern: skillfully navigating change – be it at the level of an individual, organization, community, or even an entire species – demands not ruggedness or flexibility, but ruggedness and flexibility. It’s an example of when non-dual thinking, or holding two competing
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • When Did Fitness Become a Luxury Item? When Did Fitness Become a Luxury Item?
according to Lancaster University researchers, that "r"s are becoming a thing of the past in England—apart from in Blackburn, where the "r" is still very much rolling.
PhysOrg.com • Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity
Functional misalignment can also lead to greater spread of misinformation. A recent study suggests that people who are spreading political misinformation leverage moral and emotional information – for example, posts that provoke moral outrage – in order to get people to share it more. When algorithms amplify moral and emotional information,
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