When Inna and I visited Tiger Kingdom in Phuket, I mentioned to her that I’d never known that tigers have white spots on the back of their ears, and wondered what the heck that was about. I didn’t ask the keepers, and never learned the reason until a couple days ago, when I came across this photograph of a tiger bending low to get a drink of water.
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The human organism has been designed with particularly good eyesight. We’re especially attuned to detect and focus on any movement in our field of vision, which was a significant evolutionary advantage for an opportunistic species that might equally find itself as predator or as prey. If something moves, we want to know about it, what it is, where ( Read more... )

Every day, modern science progresses forward, making us a more technically advanced society. But when was the last time you heard about a major ethical breakthrough? We’re a 21st century people living with ethics that almost exclusively derive from the Middle Ages, biblical time, and the ancient Greeks.

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So I’ve finally read the long-awaited (and equally long-titled) book “Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness” by Marc Ian Barasch.

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I want to take the opportunity to recommend the May 2005 issue of Shambala Sun to people. While the balance of the magazine is interesting and of value, but I feel that two articles are of particular value to me and most of the people I know.

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