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There is a curtain of darkness that is falling across the world, a blanket of fake news and lies is smothering the truth and we know where that leads. We simply cannot afford to let this happen.

One reason for that is obvious: if you’re popular — and storytellers are — you’re more likely to have a partner. Another potential explanation is that the rest of the community is inclined to look favorably on the storyteller’s family and extend help when needed in the form of childcare, pitching in to look after a sick family member, or even... See more

sense-making can be characterised by seven key properties, in-cluding being “driven by plausibility rather than accuracy”. (Patterson, Roth, & Woods, 1999) also report that when decision makers are faced with inaccurate representations of the real-world, they often fill-in the gaps.

It is not soldiers nor intelligence officers but artists who occupy this space, writing the latest chapter in Teufelsberg’s history.

One of Cattelan's peers, Georgian performance artist David Datuna, found nutritional value in the work: At Art Basel Miami Beach, he untaped the banana and ate it in an artistic intervention he titled "Hungry Artist."

On the biological level, two cerebral hemispheres of the cortex are specialized for different modes of information processing. The left hemisphere operates primarily in the verbal, sequential mode; the right hemisphere primarily in a spatial and simultaneous mode. This right hemisphere mode is often devalued by the dominant, verbal intellect.

Transcendence of ordinary consciousness is not this kind of belief but a discovery and a development inside our minds of a different kind of knowledge. It is not intellectual or emotional, either, but the development of a conscious insight.

The Oath Keepers are back. And leaked documents suggest the group is trying to rebuild its brand by targeting youth, and in particular the Boy Scouts

There’s a concept in the open-source community known as benevolent dictator for life which describes a developer’s willingness to distribute his work for free while retaining exclusive rights and control over it, but whose actions must be orientated toward helping the community.