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October 2008 
EQUAL Views for October 5, 2008
Posted on Oct 7th, 2008
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wolfspirit
wolfspirit
"EQUAL Views" is my new Web-only column. Here you'll find a quick multi-perspectival take on the whole universe of developments in the realms of self, culture, nature, and spirituality.
| EQUAL Views: Every Quadrant Under a Lense By Joe Perez Inquiry: What's Going On? | |
 I agree with Steve Pavlina: as people grow in consciousness, they tend to change their investment habits. ... Do women have a different creative process than men? They may struggle with the fear of giving too much to their art. ... Dan Ariely: People oppose the bailout, in part, because they want revenge. So an emotive response trumps reason. Why did a baseball player put a penny in his jock strap after each win? It has to do with feeling powerless. | Chemical engineers have succeeded in turning vegetable oil into jet fuel. It seems some brave pilot flew a plane for more than 30 minutes. ... High-caloric diets may inflame the brain, preventing the activity of IKKß/NF-κB to protect animals from obesity. ... Senseless in Australia: A seven-year-old boy bludgeoned many well-loved animals and fed some of them to a crocodile. Zookeeper: "We're horrified!" |
| Arthur Versluis on the history of mystical sexuality from Bacchic revelry through Christian repression and esoteric schools reappearing in the modern era; but draws no clear line between pre-rational egocentric eroticism and trans-rational Kosmocentric eroticism. ... Marc Ambinder sniffs the new McCain/Palin meme: "He's culturally foreign. He doesn't share your values. He's dangerous." | "Flat" in the title of Thomas Friedman's new book refers to the rise of the middle class, not a monological view of consciousness. ... New York Times: Barack Obama and Bill Ayers didn't share ideas; they merely "crossed paths." ... Scientific American: Mounting evidence that polygyny was the norm for sexual behavior throughout human prehistory and history. Was? |
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