- Farms
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
- Miracle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.
- Rain
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.
- Storm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020