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Mirror Neurons : These are neurons that fire both when we act and when we observe the same action performed by another. They play a role in empathy, allowing us to “feel” a story.

In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased."

-- Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)

Never Know When It Might Come in Useful

Nasrudin sometimes took people for trips in his boat. One day a fussy pedagogue hired him to ferry him across a very wide river.

As soon as they were afloat, the scholar asked whether it was going to be rough.

“Don’t ask me nothing about it,” said Nasrudin.

“Have you never studied grammar?”

“No,” said the Mul... See more

What interests me most, however, are David Montgomery’s intricate character studies of the treasure seekers, as well as his insight in connecting their consuming passion to a modern-day lack of faith in mainstream media and politicians. As usual, it is the very human stories of desire, belief, and commitment that provide the most fascinating elemen... See more

Behind all their effort were stories that propelled, motivated, and inspired this amazing period. We know this because these early farmers left a trail of monolithic structures in their wake, from the 11,000-year-old “first” temple, Göbekli Tepe, in southeastern Turkey, to Stonehenge in Britain, which was finally completed about 4,500 years ago. St... See more

Whether or not the Spanish Moss was actually used for seat padding or for shipping the Cypress is irrelevant because it’s the combination of the moss and the Cypress that became the problem. The two items together formed a small ecosystem where bugs could thrive.

Here is the long story in short format. People were buying buggy Model Ts and getting b... See more

He describes the circumstances and what actually happens neurobiologically when our brains are activated each time we understand a problem or understand it anew. Along with other processes, this instinctive brain reaction forms the foundation of the insight behind the “higher” perceptions