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What Makes Us Moral - A to Z Health Guide 2007 - TIME - 16 views

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  • We're a species that is capable of almost dumbfounding kindness.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 09 Jan 12
       
      I didn't know that all humans can all be kind unlike Adolf Hitler
  • We're the only species with language, we told ourselves—until gorillas and chimps mastered sign language.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 09 Jan 12
       
      I would think all animals have a way of speaking to communicate with their peers/
  • But if the same teacher says it's also O.K. to push another student off a chair, the child hesitates. "He'll respond, 'No, the teacher shouldn't say that,'" says psychologist Michael Schulman, co-author of Bringing Up a Moral Child.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 09 Jan 12
       
      interesting I never thought of it in this kind of way.
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Teaching Kids How to Break Up Nicely - NYTimes.com - 9 views

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  • Is it O.K. to unfriend your last girlfriend if you can’t stop looking at her profile?
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 06 Oct 11
       
      woah!! this is pretty harsh because sometimes you accept friend request when you don't even know the person.
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The Power of Birth Order - TIME - 7 views

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  • middlings are never alone and thus never get 100% of the parents'
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 30 Aug 11
       
      It must suck to be in the middle of the birth order, because of the attention your other siblings received
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The Power of Birth Order - TIME - 29 views

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  • Egrets are not the intellectual heavyweights of the animal kingdom—or even the bird world—but nature makes them remarkably cunning when it comes to planning their families.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 30 Aug 11
       
      I never knew that egrets were so smart about planning their fledglings future.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 30 Aug 11
       
      I never knew that egrets were so smart about planning their fledglings future.
  • orange tree carries about 100,000 pollinated blossoms, each of which is a potential orange, complete with the seeds that are potential trees. But in the course of a season, only about 500 oranges are actually produced.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 30 Aug 11
       
      I didn't know that a typical orange tree has around 100,000 pollinated blossoms but only 1% of the actually produced an orange!
  • It's not for nothing that family scrapbooks are usually stuffed with pictures and report cards of the firstborn and successively fewer of the later-borns—and the later-borns notice it
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 01 Sep 11
       
      This is very true because usually in all families like mine the older siblings has the most baby photos and privileages. 
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Mark Moffett Ants | The 'Jane Goodall of ants' - Los Angeles Times - 45 views

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  • Leafcutter ants — these ants use foliage as mulch, on which they grow domesticated fungus. You describe their agriculture as parallel to the history of farming in humans.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 26 Aug 11
       
      I didn't know that ants are so similar to humas in that they farm plants too!
  • Particularly in North America and Europe though, ants plunder other colonies and steal the young.
    • Kolton Shreve
      Kolton Shreve on 26 Aug 11
       
      This is very similar to the trafficking that goes on in Africa every day.
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