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

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shared by Logan Hutchinson on 08 Jan 12 - Cached
  • We're the only one that uses tools then—but that's if you don't count otters smashing mollusks with rocks or apes stripping leaves from twigs and using them to fish for termites
    • mako ushi
      mako ushi on 10 Jan 12
       
      We are not the only intellectually advanced species in this world. Our relatives hold their own on this level; even if it is as simple as a rock and another rock.
  • If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad.
    • mako ushi
      mako ushi on 10 Jan 12
       
      I believe that all the smaller, individual parts of the single being will speak something different from another and cause it to spiral out of control. It would be a mind of chaos and a body in anarchy. 
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The Power of Birth Order - TIME - 29 views

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shared by Ria Sappal on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • That causes the babies to appear on successive days, which gives the first-arriving chick the earliest crack at the food and a 24-hour head start on growth
    • mako ushi
      mako ushi on 02 Sep 11
       
      I find it strange that even birds allow one chick to get ahead of the others.
  • Orange trees are even tougher on their young
    • mako ushi
      mako ushi on 02 Sep 11
       
      Its hard to believe that a tree is harsher that a bird that has favorites.
  • In a recent survey of corporate heads conducted by Vistage, an international organization of ceos, poll takers reported that 43% of the people who occupy the big chair in boardrooms are firstborns, 33% are middle-borns
    • mako ushi
      mako ushi on 02 Sep 11
       
      I didnt know that a majority of the CEOs in the world are oldest children.
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