Memes in the Watson category “/science/chemistry”

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An Insightful Ancient Observation on the Origins of Things

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

Sep 6, 2011 1

death
origins
philosophy

The Paradox of Crying Babies

Crying is the earliest and most compelling of infant signals," writes Ronald Barr, and surely there is no sound on earth more piercing than the cry of an infant. The ability to cry was hard-wired into human babies long ago as a potent signal to get adult attention. Like other primates, human infants needed to be able…

Jun 29, 2011 1

crying
evolution
infancy
parenting