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Bystanders to Genocide - Samantha Power - The Atlantic - 5 views

  • A few years later, in a series in The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch recounted in horrific detail the story of the genocide and the world's failure to stop it
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      I found the last part of this sentence to be really true. I did not know about this at all but it seem like it should have been a bigger deal and someone needed to step in and help. I do not see how it could have been so easily ignored. So many people died for no reason at all it just seems crazy it was not in the media or in our history books now.
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Jay-Z vs the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate | Marc Lynch - 3 views

  • the countdown to the end of the Game's career starts today.
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      I think since this paper was written in 2009 is really shows the power that people have over others. This line shows it perfectly because I have heard Jay-Z for the last couple of years on the radio and in the media but i hear none of The Game, I don not even know who he is (this could be due to the fact that I listen to country) But this still shows that if you criticize  someone in power the back lash could take you down and make them even more popular because people will want to defend and help someone who has not said some thing back, for example Taylor swift and Kanye we all know what I mean just by me saying their names together and that did help her career because it put her in the news much more then if she would have just won and got her award.
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Dan Dennett: Dangerous memes | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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      I really liked the point that he brought up when he said that when he say that "we are all responsible for our ideas . . .and there likely missuses". I feel like a lot of people take an idea and blow it out of the water and make the idea go much bigger then intend. We have to watch what we say because someone could take it in a different light.  
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What Makes Us Happy? - Joshua Wolf Shenk - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • wn life has been so woven into the study—and the study has become such a creature of his mind—that neit
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      I think this is kind of interesting. The fact that he gave so much of his life to study others life it seems like a little bit of a waste, even if it is for science.
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The endowment effect: It’s mine, I tell you | The Economist - 11 views

  • In societies with markets, customers can go elsewhere. But in a small, tribal society there may be no alternative seller. In that case, those who were reluctant to trade might get better prices.
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      I think this is an interesting point, after all the comparisons with the chimps we get to see that even as humans it depends on where we live that can affect how we trade.
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Joanna Moorhead on the best country to give birth | Life and style | The Guardian - 18 views

  • Dahara's husband has not been involved in the birth and is unlikely to play a big role in the early weeks with the baby
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      If the woman had just given birth then she will be tired and not fully healed especially if she did get all the medical help she would have needed during the birth. She needs her husband's help so much right now and the fact that he is not helping and he's not expected to help is really just sad and could be part of the reason the children are not getting enough at a young age.
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Chimp Fights and Trolley Rides - Radiolab - 13 views

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      I thought it was interesting that when the brain was looked at when asked the trolley questions that so much changed and different parts started to light up. How people saw the two deaths a different when they had to ask themselves about "personally killing" someone versus just pulling the switch
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      The brain really battles itself and really shows how people get to what is right and what is wrong can be more than just moral ,but biological as well.
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