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What do people think about? |
“I think, therefore I am,” said René Descartes. “We become what we think,” said the Buddha. Across the crush of time, some of our most recognized philosophers have come to believe that who we are is, in large measure, determined by our thoughts. |
But many people have only a glancing handle on where their minds go on any given day. And if our own thoughts are mysterious, the preoccupations of the people around us are still more obscure. |
Given the general inscrutability of thought, I was fascinated to read a new study that identifies patterns in the subjects people turn to most frequently and sorts human thinking styles into four buckets. |
Sex barely made the list. Coffee and cats fared better. → |
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🐆 Animals |
> Check out rare images of Borneo’s “ghosts of the forest.” (See them on Nautilus) |
> An explosion of feces may have triggered Earth’s explosion of species. (Read on Nautilus) |
> In the animal kingdom, there’s a benefit to being a little bit stupid. (Read on Nautilus) |
💭 Psychology |
> Better posture is linked to better decision making and better mood. (Read on Nautilus) |
> More testosterone won’t make a better soldier or a tougher man. Aggression and strength drive T levels, not the other way around. (Read on Nautilus) |
> Some psychiatric disorders may be linked to certain types of intelligence. It could be why evolution hasn’t removed them from our species. (Read on Nautilus) |
🧑🚀 Cosmos |
> 55 years ago, an astronaut dropped a hammer on the moon. (Watch the video on Nautilus) |
> Turns out even black holes eat too fast and get indigestion. (Read on Space.com) |
> It’s the fastest thing humanity has ever built. (Read on Jalopnik) |
> The satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift orbiting observatory now also needs to be saved. (Read on Ars Technica) |
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Today’s Trivia |
🧐 The brain occupies 2 percent of our body weight, but consumes what percent of the energy used by the human body? |
A) 10 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 30 percent
D) 40 percent |
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High intelligence is just one evolutionary strategy. Some species do well in evolutionary terms precisely because they invest in other features, not intelligence. |
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| —Neurobiologist Georg Striedter on the benefits of being a bit stupid. |
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