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Day: January 9, 2020
The voice of sadness is censored as sick. What if it’s sane? | Aeon Essays
Kama muta: a new term for that warm, fuzzy feeling we all get | Aeon Ideas
via Kama muta: a new term for that warm, fuzzy feeling we all get | Aeon Ideas
Kama muta is recognisable by six co-occurring features:
- It is evoked by the sudden intensification of communal sharing – that is, sudden ‘love’ or kindness;
- It is brief (typically less than a minute or two, though it can repeat in rapid succession);
- It feels good (though it can occur in the context of other, negative emotions);
- When intense, it is often accompanied by the same set of physical sensations: a warm, fuzzy feeling in the centre of the chest; moist eyes or tears; being choked up (a lump in the throat); chills or goosebumps; and often a smile and putting the palm(s) on the chest, sometimes saying ‘Awwww!’;
- It motivates devotion and compassion to communal sharing – also known as ‘loving kindness’;
- Depending on the language and the context, it is often labelled with the terms mentioned above.
A masterwork of nature filmmaking that helped transform how wolves were seen | Aeon Videos
Word of the Day
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Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Strategies Recommended For Successful Bootstrapping
6 A’s DhAnAnjAyA jAy PArkhe© Daily
Random Acts of Kindness
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Smile at a stranger
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Save your family some time and buy their groceries
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Save water – take a shorter shower today
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Neighbour’s lawn looking messy? Offer to mow it
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See someone struggling with lots of bags? Offer to help them
Random Fake Words :)
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Eggmode
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Miccopriuos
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Servation
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Molish
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Wisdom Quotes
A single raindrop down your neck is enough to make you shiver.
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Know what moves you forward and what holds you back. Then firmly embrace the first and let go of the other.
Know well what holds you back and what moves you forward. (Guatama Buddha)
In Hong Kong, roller derby gives women an outlet to defy gender norms | Goldthread
Impossible Dumplings and Beyond Buns: Will China Buy Fake Meat? – The New York Times
China Wants to Mount Laser Cannons on Its Fighter Jets
War Worsens Climate Change – Big Think
The Huge Australian Fires Could Change the Entire Earth’s Climate
The adversarial culture in philosophy does not serve the truth | Aeon Ideas
via The adversarial culture in philosophy does not serve the truth | Aeon IdeasAdversarial criticism is commonly driven by a binary understanding of ideas. Claims are either true or false; arguments are either valid or invalid. If this understanding is correct, then the exclusion of false or invalid points does indeed seem to leave us with true ideas. If this were the case, criticism would indeed be a good way of responding to the proponent of an idea. But how well does this work in practice? The philosopher Catherine Hundleby at the University of Windsor in Ontario analysed how argumentation is taught to students and concluded that ‘argument repair’, in which the proponents of a position revise their argument in response to criticism, is greatly neglected. Instead, what is emphasised are quick tools for evaluating arguments by putting ‘fallacy labels’ onto them. This is less helpful than one might think because it’s purely negative.
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Pentagon Confirms Iran Launched Rockets at U.S. Forces in Iraq | Aviation Pros
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World NRI Day
8 Problems Math Solved For Us (No One Asked For) – Listverse
Did you know…
Did you know…
… that today is Johnny Cash’s Road Day? In 1982, the Johnny Cash Parkway opened in Hendersonville, Tennessee. John R. “Johnny” Cash, AKA “The Man In Black,” was an American singer-songwriter, actor and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
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Today’s Inspirational Quote:
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
— Johnny Cash
Random phrases for the day
