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Regarding My Drug of Choice
By
Gus diZerega
As far back as I can remember, I’ve heard people warning me about all the bad consequences that will happen because I indulge so deeply in my favorite drug. It is with great pleasure that the following has recently been discovered. I sure hope the research survives scrutiny!
Animal Morality
By
Gus diZerega
I’ve just finished Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce’s new book, Wild Justice: the Moral Lives of Animals. Theirs is a wonderful book that in less than 200 pages has deeply changed how I look at our other-than-human neighbors on our planet. It has moved me still further from the sociopathic assumptions that increasingly define modern…
More on Bird Brains: Rooks are also Tool Makers/Users
By
Gus diZerega
Recent discoveries about bird intelligence after so many many years of people knowing we were the only tool users and making it a definition for being human are great evidence for how what we “know” blinds us to what is. See this neat BBC piece on rooks, a British bird, and their remarkable intelligence.
Meditation and the Brain
By
Gus diZerega
Stephen Schwarz uncovers interesting research on how meditation increases grey matter.
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