Pascale Soleil: humanAnimalthe kind of being we areJealousy- October 8, 2002 Men are jealous because they're worried they'll be raising another man's offspring (sexual jealousy); women are afraid that a man will fall in love with another woman, and thereafter not support her children (emotional jealousy). Evolutionary pressure caused this difference it's hard-wired. Classic argument from nature. It's gotten lots of play in our "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" culture. Sounds pretty persuasive. Except maybe it's completely wrong. Read this article in the New.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/08.html#a351 Oh yes...- October 6, 2002 Halley Suitt of Halley's Comment pulls out a terrific quotation: ...In another domain, research on resilience, both physical and mental, reveals that rich authentic connection is one of the most salient factors in continued good health, outweighting such decisive forces as nutrition, exercise, even the absence of smoking. We enter life whole and connected and we operate best when richly attached. Intimacy is our natural state as a species, our birthright. And yet, while the push away from...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/06.html#a345 Masturbation- October 3, 2002 That got your attention. :) Over at Time's Shadow, Dave Rogers talks about trying to get a grip on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (hehe, great oxymoronic image!). Like me, he's fascinated by physics. Neither of us is ever going to push the frontiers of subatomic physics back, nor expand the limits of cosmology, but we think the ideas are neat and we like to learn and think about them. Is this "mental masturbation" Well, so what if it is First of all, let's all take a deep breath and get.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/03.html#a338 |