IS CLIMATE CHANGE LARGELY THE RESULT OF HUMAN ACTIVITY?
The pollster Ipsos MORI put the question to people in 20 countries. Here’s a sampling of how many said yes:
Read moreThe pollster Ipsos MORI put the question to people in 20 countries. Here’s a sampling of how many said yes:
Read more“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around — and why his parents will always wave back.” – William D. Tammeus
Read moreWhen you’re angry, your face, head, and arms grow hot When you’re depressed, a cold numbness grips your head and arms. Love triggers a warm glow throughout your upper body, especially around your heart. Human emotions, a new study has found, are directly linked to sensations in specific body parts, and the map is largely the same across different cultures. […]
Read more“Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; […]
Read more“One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human” – Johann Wolfgang
Read more“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela
Read more“Human,” by Natalie Grant: “Every life has a choice to rise up to fill the void. Every heart has a mission and we are called to be human.We’ve gotta do better than this ’cause we’ve only got once chance to make a difference. We’ve gotta do better than this ’cause we’ve only got one life that we’ve been given.”
Read moreSince the late 1990s, when they began decoding the human genome, scientists have believed that 98 percent of DNA is “junk,” with no function. But new research shows that most of this genetic material serves as switches that turn genes on or off, which could explain why some people predisposed to certain diseases get them, while others don’t. Our genome […]
Read more“The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.” – Albert Schweitzer
Read more“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.” – George Orwell
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