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Storytelling is a primal instinct (people have been telling stories much, much longer than they’ve been reading or writing about them)

a means of bonding; there is a sense of closer connection to those with whom we share spontaneous and often personal stories.

Storytelling is our superpower

Hadrian’s Aqueduct supplied water to Greece’s capital for centuries but was then largely abandoned. It’s being revived to ease water scarcity amid global warming.

Dec. 7, 2024, 12:01 a.m. ET

In a 2004 study, Angelo Maravita and Atsushi Iriki discovered that when monkeys and humans consistently use a tool to extend their reach, such as using a rake to reach an object, certain neural networks in the brain change their “map” of the body to include the new tool. This fascinating finding reinforces the idea that external tools can and

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“Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”

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Tony Robbins

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” - Robert F.... See more

In combination with considerably slower rates of reading and diminished reading comprehension, curtailed homework time means that an English teacher might not be able to assign more than 10 to 15 pages of relatively easy prose per class meeting, a rate so excruciatingly slow, it diminishes one’s ability to actually grasp a novel’s meaning and... See more

Since then, Prospera and Crawfish Rock villagers have battled over ground water, and tense public meetings have boiled over into fistfights between Brimen’s employees and locals, she said. Brimen himself has visited the community to collect signatures in support of the project and offer loans. Another Prospera leader once rolled in with two pickup... See more