Sunday, October 5, 2008

An Interesting Interlude

Jonathan Haidt: The real difference between liberals and conservatives

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.

Jonathan Haidt studies how -- and why -- we evolved to be moral. By understanding more about our moral roots, his hope is that we can learn to be civil and understanding of those whose morals don't...

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The Garden of Earthly Delights
c.1504
by Hieronymus Bosch

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Kali Yuga

The end of the Kali Yuga results in absolute chaos world-wide. In present times it shall be a fight to the finish between Christianity and Islam. Both the sacred Scriptures the Bible and the Quran confirm it. Kali Yuga is aka the metal age because end of the Kali Yuga results with a clash of the metal. The fight between the two parties would see the use of the metal to its extreme...

The end phase of the Kali Yuga is of great happiness on the whole. For many centuries ahead it would be a period of reconciliation and reckoning. The humanity would have learnt a bitter lesson in the passing phase of Kali Yuga.

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It's no America's Next Top Model, or Survivor 54, but, it might be worth a peek: "storytelling can change the world"

Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world

With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate.

A National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Wade Davis travels the globe to live alongside indigenous people, and document their cultural practices in books, photographs, and film.

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