//////////////////////COMFORTABLE WITH UNCERTAINTY= include the capacity to identify ambiguity and bias in the information they receive. This core skill we might call negative capability, or the capacity to be comfortable, and even thrive, in uncertainty.
///////////////////////primatologist Frans de Waal calls Veneer Theory, is an essentially pessimistic view "that morality is a thin veneer over a nasty human nature."
////////////////////////////BT=de Waal challenges this theory, arguing that human morality is older than religion, and indeed an innate quality. In other words, religion did not give us morality. Religion built onto a pre-existing moral system that governed how our species behaved.
////////////////////////BT=While only three percent of the world's surface is covered by urban landscapes, more than half of the human population lives in city environments.
/////////////////////////BT=The spread of genetic diversity can be traced back to the invention of the bicycle, according to geneticist Steve Jones, which encouraged the intermarriage of people between villages and towns. But the urbanization occurring now is generating unprecedented mixing. As a result, humans are now more genetically similar than at any time in the last 100,000 years, Jones says.
////////////////////////BT=Without a stable set of fulfilling social relationships, psychologists say we are given to mainlining sugar and fat to stimulate pleasure centers in the brain. Practicing random acts of kindness is one remedy.
/////////////////////////////////////Why is depression somehow an objective state and happiness subjective?
////////////////////////////STORY- HAPPY-CONFLICT-FIGHTBACK-RESOLUTION
///////////////////////"How we feel about 'the nature of existence' is largely determined by what we have to do in the next few hours"—Alain de Botton
///////////////////////////Compassion is wishing that beings be free from suffering
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///////////////////////primatologist Frans de Waal calls Veneer Theory, is an essentially pessimistic view "that morality is a thin veneer over a nasty human nature."
////////////////////////////BT=de Waal challenges this theory, arguing that human morality is older than religion, and indeed an innate quality. In other words, religion did not give us morality. Religion built onto a pre-existing moral system that governed how our species behaved.
////////////////////////BT=While only three percent of the world's surface is covered by urban landscapes, more than half of the human population lives in city environments.
/////////////////////////BT=The spread of genetic diversity can be traced back to the invention of the bicycle, according to geneticist Steve Jones, which encouraged the intermarriage of people between villages and towns. But the urbanization occurring now is generating unprecedented mixing. As a result, humans are now more genetically similar than at any time in the last 100,000 years, Jones says.
////////////////////////BT=Without a stable set of fulfilling social relationships, psychologists say we are given to mainlining sugar and fat to stimulate pleasure centers in the brain. Practicing random acts of kindness is one remedy.
/////////////////////////////////////Why is depression somehow an objective state and happiness subjective?
////////////////////////////STORY- HAPPY-CONFLICT-FIGHTBACK-RESOLUTION
///////////////////////"How we feel about 'the nature of existence' is largely determined by what we have to do in the next few hours"—Alain de Botton
///////////////////////////Compassion is wishing that beings be free from suffering
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