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Projections: A Story of Human Emotions

by Karl Deisseroth

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We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia

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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

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“Eventually, hyper-individualism creates isolated, self-interested monads who sense that something is missing in their lives but cannot even name what it is.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

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“Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.”
― Richard O. Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us

tags: aesthetics, beauty, darwinism, evolution, feedback-loop, mate-choice, natural-selection, ronald-a-fisher, sexual-selection

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“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

tags: children, death, grief

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“The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

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“Cher sang the song “If I Could Turn Back Time” about how she wished she could turn back time just so she could stop an argument that she’d had. If this is the sort of stupid thing people would be doing with time travel, I don’t think we should encourage it.”
― Karl Pilkington, Karlology: What I've Learnt So Far...

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