Peggy Sanday’s study of 186 hunter-gatherer cultures found that when men are involved in the care of their own infants the cultures do not make war. This greater involvement of men with their babies may eventually contribute to a more peaceful world. That thought makes me optimistic. JOHN GOTTMAN Psychologist; Founder of Gottman Institute; Author …
Straws in the wind: we rent a flat in London to American academics running year or semester-long courses on subjects like English literature or the theatre for American university students. Until 9/11 these courses were usually full, but latterly the number of students has dropped drastically and at least by half. The reason given is …
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Many of us live out our lives in thrall to the traditions into which we are born. others question their inheritance and embark upon a lifetime of learning. The former end up convinced they know everything.Quoted in Science Musings.com
Pascal said, "Scientific learning is composed of two opposites which nonetheless meet each other. The first is the natural ignorance that is man’s lot at birth. The second is represented by those great minds that have investigated all knowledge accumulated by man, only to discover at the end that in fact they know nothing. Thus …
EVOLUTION Only 40% of adults in the United States believe evolution to be “true”. A third of American adults positively believe it to be false, presumably believing that God delivered man and woman, fully formed, to the Garden of Eden five thousand years ago, as per one of the Hebrew creation myths (there were two …
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