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Thomas Hobbes’s describes life as “nasty, brutish, and short,” Keltner believes evolution has given Homo sapiens emotions like gratitude, joy, amusement, and compassion because they help us survive and build cooperative, ethical societies.
Dacher Keltner on the Science of Awe by Mark Leviton
The triple point of pure water is at the temperature just above freezing (0.01° C) and at the pressure (0.006 atm) at which it can exist in equilibrium in all three states: liquid, solid, and gaseous.
Yes, water can freeze & boil at the same time!
The triple point is used to calibrate thermometers.
Time For A Populist Revolution. Urban radicals favor equality, and rural traditionalists favor liberty, but economic pressure on both the right & left is what the oligarchs want.
Liberal & conservative are terms used – not to think – but to avoid thinking. You can classify anything as liberal or conservative, then simply declare yourself as being one or the other. All your thoughts for the rest of your life can be a knee jerk.
In a simple tit-for-tat strategy, one begins by cooperating and then mimics the other player’s moves. Tit-for-tat is nice in that it is willing to cooperate and it does not bear a grudge. It also cannot be exploited because any defection from cooperation will be returned.
By Robert Schenk @ ingrimayne.com Re: TitForTat
See also truth bias
“You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head – do you think, at your age, it is right?”
In my youth,” Father William replied to his son, “I feared it might injure the brain; but now that I’m perfectly sure I have none, why, I do it again and again.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
Resolve to be a ball of fire tomorrow, rather than, metaphorically, a damp clammy dishrag. It all depends on one’s incentive to do the right thing at the right time.
