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lanimal (61)in #science • 7 years ago
How Economic and Ecological Systems Grow Large and Complex
"The problem is precisely how to extend the span of our utilization of resources beyond the span of the control of any one mind; and therefore, how to dispense with the need of…
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lanimal (61)in #news • 7 years ago
Antifa Astroturf vs. Real Brusfires of the Mind
Photo by Daphne Iona . It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. –Samuel…
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lanimal (61)in #science • 7 years ago
How Better Breathing can get you more Aroused and Attentive
Image by Andreas Dress, via Unsplash . New Science behind Ancient Techniques Since ancient times many people have found considerable benefits from meditation, while…
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lanimal (61)in #academia • 7 years ago
Our Software Evolves much as our Genetic Hardware does
Unraveling Transitions in Human Cultural Evolution Researchers working at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History recently published an interesting study…
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lanimal (61)in #science • 8 years ago
Swimming, Swarming, and Spontaneous Order in the Sea
Robots with sonar reveal many animals intricately coordinating their swimming behavior Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS REMUS are relatively low-cost Autonomous…
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lanimal (61)in #academia • 8 years ago
Recent Evolution of Human Genes for Processing Fats: Before and After the Spread of Agriculture
Evidence of Natural Selection at work over the past 10,000 years A newly published study in Nature Ecology & Evolution presents evidence that natural selection…
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lanimal (61)in #science • 8 years ago
Decentralization: It’s not just Rational, it’s Natural, and your brain uses it all the time!
Crowdsourcing Brain Cells Build Consensus to Make Decisions A newly published study in Frontiers in Neuroscience presents interesting insights into how our brains…
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lanimal (61)in #life • 8 years ago
Why you shouldn’t lie to anyone you don’t plan to kill, and probably not even if you do
This post was inspired by a pithy statement from negotiation expert Chris Voss in the interview that I linked at the end of my recent post about Negotiation and…
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lanimal (61)in #business • 8 years ago
Negotiation and Communication: What an Expert Hostage Negotiator can Teach Us
How can a hostage negotiator’s tips help you improve your interactions with colleagues, friends, and even family? I’ve been away from Steemit for too long! Busy with…
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lanimal (61)in #science • 8 years ago
New Study Clarifies Diversity-Productivity Relationships using Phytoplankton as a Model Ecosystem
Mechanism of Resilience in Communities with Different Size Distributions: Underlying mechanism of biodiversity-productivity relationships Clarified In a new study entitled…
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lanimal (61)in #life • 8 years ago
The Advantages of an Optimistic Bias, and Afformations
The Engine of Capitalism I recently listened to another great chapter of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow , chapter 24, entitled “The Engine of Capitalism”. He…
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lanimal (61)in #life • 8 years ago
Cultivating a Natural State of Flow
Flow, or the Zone A few months ago I started seeing podcasts and other discussions of Flow online. It seems to be a new term for what has long been called getting into The…
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lanimal (61)in #academia • 8 years ago
Perverse Incentives and Hyper-competition in Academia
New Article Discusses Long-Standing Problems The following article was just recently published in Environmental Engineering Science . Academic Research in the…
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lanimal (61)in #health • 8 years ago
How Fasting can help us recover from bacterial, but not viral, infections
A fasting Buddha. Fasting has a long history in many cultures, and it's now trendy, at least for some Over the past few years, fasting has become quite popular among those…
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lanimal (61)in #science • 8 years ago
How and What Bacteria ‘Breathe’
First, Congratulations to Dianne Newman on being named a MacArthur Fellow When I was in graduate school, I remember discussing with Dianne the ways that bacteria use…
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lanimal (61)in #science • 8 years ago
Plants Proactively Protect Themselves from Parasites.
Plants may appear passive to the naked eye, but they’re quite proactive at molecular and microscopic scales Except for rare species such as this Venus Flytrap , most…
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lanimal (61)in #science • 8 years ago
Ecology really is in Our Blood: the Ecology of Nutrition and Host-Pathogen relationships
Several years ago I saw Val H. Smith (no relation) present ideas about the ecology of the human bloodstream. I’m pleased to know that he continued this line of research. For…
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lanimal (61)in #science • 8 years ago
Chemical Warfare Among Single-Celled Organisms
Think single-celled organisms are too simple to undertake chemical warfare? In fact, many bacteria, fungi, and algae do so all the time. My previous post, Bacteria…
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lanimal (61)in #science • 8 years ago
Bacteria not only spear their enemies, they arm their allies too!
In the image above, from the Yahr laboratory's webpage , the outer membrane of the host (victim) cell on top is pierced by a weapon from the bacterial cell (bottom). Now we…
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lanimal (61)in #health • 8 years ago
Researchers Bribed, people duped by government dietary guidelines
Do you trust the dietary recommendations from the FDA and USDA Warning: Eating according to the food pyramid below may be hazardous to your health! I’ve explained before…
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