Website: Why do human beings engage in courageous acts of compassion but also perpetrate violence? Could the apparent flip-flopping morality of our species have a hidden explanation? The Moral Molecule is a first-hand account of the discove…
Daily Archives: 13/05/2012
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Irom Sharmila Chanu, also known as the Iron Lady of Manipur, has been fasting since November 2000, the longest political protest in history…See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion
I predict that if we see war as a choice, and not as something that is foisted on us by forces beyond our control, and if we do all we can to end war, we will succeed. We reason that the best way to achieve peace is to arm ourselves and even attack pot…
Walter Wink, 76, one of the most creative and influential scholars of our day, died peacefully at his home in Sandisfield in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts on May 10, 2012. Wink’s breakthrough insights about the contemporary mea…
Psychologists now believe fledgling psychopaths can be identified as early as kindergarten. The hope is to teach these children empathy before it’s too late… For the past 10 years, Waschbusch has been studying “callous-unemotional&…