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• Life without numbers in a unique Amazon tribe. Piraha apparently can't learn to count and have no distinct words for colors.
• Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution": ""At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information. ... I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race ... Some people would use the term, evolution, only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes." The time scale for evolution, in the external transmission period, has collapsed to about 50 years, or less"; "we are now entering a new phase, of what Hawking calls "self designed evolution,&quo t; in which we will be able to change and improve our DNA. ... during the next century, people will discover how to modify both intelligence, and instincts like aggression.&qu ot;"
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• Global Lives Project - Ten people, one spin
• Why you can't help but care about Brad and Angelina, Part III | Psychology Today: A simple test: If your fairy godmother appeared and offered to make you famous, can you honestly maintain you'd say "no thanks"? The reason you'd take her up on it is that you know that if you were famous you would have achieved what you, and all of us in this society, believe to be the very purpose of life: you would have fulfilled your destiny. Finally, that nagging feeling of being one step away from happiness would go away, because you would have taken that last step.
• Shadow values and, one more time, doublethink | Psychology Today: I've talked about "shadow values," the fact that the world of entertainment allows us to indulge and cultivate values that we deny. The two topics are related, of course. That is, the world of entertainment allows you to indulge your fascination with celebrities while denying that fascination at the same time.
• Unshakeable self confidence is in the genes, claim scientists - Telegraph
• How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans | Science | The Observer: How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans A fossil discovery bears marks of butchering similar to those made when cutting up a deer * Buzz up! * Digg it (3) * Robin McKie, science editor * The Observer, Sunday 17 May 2009 * Article history Neanderthal Dish of the day? Photograph: Action Press/Rex Features One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert.
• "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online"
• Social Anthropology - Prof Peter Wade (School of Social Sciences - The University of Manchester)

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