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Stanley Tucci and his glorious arms did a Levi’s commercial in the 80s and it’s pretty crucial.
Cute Rosy Maple Moth
Meet the rosy maple moth (Dryocampa rubicunda), a North American Moth with a wingspan of between 30 and 50 mm. As the name suggests, they feed exclusively on maple trees.
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6 Theories on Early Human Intelligence That Will Make Your Head Hurt
“Back in the 1970s, psychologist Julian Jaynes was fascinated by the idea of consciousness and how it came to exist, and why human beings seem to have a much more advanced self-awareness than other animals.
The theory he developed in his 1976 book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, was, to put it mildly, controversial. Jaynes’ Bicameral Mind Theory (as it came to be known) claimed that ancient humans actually weren’t self-aware at all. Instead, man’s brain operated sort of like two separate organs. The left brain was responsible for everyday actions, while the right brain supplied memories and problem-solving derived from experience.
The only problem with this system is that, unlike modern humans, Jaynes thought there was no direct link between the two hemispheres, and thus no consciousness or reflection was available to our ancestors. Instead, the right half communicated to the left through a now-vestigial portion of the language center in the brain, which expressed as auditory hallucinations.
Jaynes believed that early humans may have treated these hallucinations as the voices of their ancestors or even the gods. He used two famous ancient books as examples: The Iliad and the Old Testament of the Bible. Both refer frequently to hearing voices (of the Muses and God, respectively) while their follow-ups, The Odyssey (which was probably not actually written by the same person as The Iliad) and the New Testament, reference much fewer instances of this. This led Jaynes to believe that the change in our brains must have occurred very recently in human history, probably a few centuries after we formed complex societies and consciousness became more beneficial.
Jaynes didn’t just pull this theory out of thin air, either. His specialty as a psychologist was working with schizophrenic patients, and he based Bicameralism on the way that a schizophrenic’s mind works. That aforementioned vestigial language center in the brain appears to be fully-functional in sufferers of schizophrenia. Most interesting of all is that recent advances in neuroimaging seem to support Jaynes’s theory.”
I think I’m going to actually get some of these printed just to give out to people on a daily basis.
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TWO WEEKS.
I don’t know, JT, “Spaceship Coupe” makes me wish I were listening to this instead.
The Dream + Kanye | “Walkin’ on the Moon”
Spending my afternoon off catching up on my reading, but it’s hard to be a serious adult when an NPR article about disability reminds you of how hilarious a commercial is.
