The Hidden Medium of All Media Most people think advertisements don’t work on them — yet, taken in the aggregate, advertising has shaped how nearly everyone lives. Each new medium began with public-service aspirations: to inform, educate, connect, or enrich civic life. But every medium — print, radio, television, and the internet — soon became […]
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Still preclinical, but now backed by convergent 2018→2025 evidence, PBN Y1R is the central, non-opioid switch for enduring pain. Do you understand the thesis implicit in: “Scientists Found the Potential Off Button for Stopping Chronic Pain”: Nicholas Betley from the University of Pennsylvania has discovered that a previously overlooked group of neurons in the parabrachial
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Our learning makes our animal emotionality human. Whatever is important is only important because it’s emotionally important. Whatever is emotionally important is only emotionally important because we learned it to be. Though emotion has is own biological logic, the context it’s operating within is always learned. What we feel as emotionally important is not an
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We’ve been here before. We outlawed “enslavement”, the ownership of people as if property. We outlawed “involuntary servitude” intending to prohibit the work-around arrangements — debt peonage, coerced “apprenticeships,” contract laws with criminal penalties — and anything else that could recreate slavery’s compulsion without calling it “ownership.” Yet today we tacitly publically grant all others
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How could an adult who ever loved a child – ever really been present to and flowing with the innately beautiful goodness of children – how could they come to believe children are born needing to be saved from their natures? What they need saving from are circumstances in which they can’t help but learn
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Do primates wake up to pee? Yes, many primates do wake up to urinate, though the frequency and patterns vary by species, age, environment, and physiological needs-just like in humans. Key Factors: Diurnal primates (awake during the day, asleep at night) generally consolidate sleep, but may wake briefly to urinate, especially if hydrated before sleeping
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Briefly describe the meanings of the words dysangency and disagency and how they differ. Dysangency and disagency both relate to disruptions in agency – our ability to act intentionally and meaningfully – but they differ in how that disruption occurs: Disagency Definition: A condition where agency is lost, blocked, or externally overridden. Core Idea: The
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Christ X Caesar = Pope. Kings ÷ Popes = Law. Kings + Popes ÷ Laws X WE = Democracy Note: The name Jesus is primarily used to mean the historically factual effects of the story of Jesus. In terms of objectively verifiable historical effects, Jesus has had more influence over who we are and how
Today a fascinating news article described the discovery of a Neanderthal factory, built 125,000 years ago, for extracting the fat from bone marrow. The story was exciting on many levels. It points to what may have been the beginnings of complexly abstract social planning (100K years before agriculture). And, even more significantly, it points to
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Humans likely evolved language as a way of learning to communicate with each other long before achieving the level of verbal representation, complexity, and speed sufficient to become verbally self-reflexive. Just as becoming language users is an evolutionary inflection point, so too is becoming verbally self-reflexive. Being able to learn through talking with ourselves opened
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