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Why Do People Bully? The Scientific Reasons
“In a recent Ditch the Label study, we spoke to 7,347 people about bullying. We asked respondents to define bullying and then later asked if, based on their own definition, they had ever bullied anybody. 14% of our overall sample, so that’s 1,239 people, said yes. What we then did was something that had never been done on this scale before; we asked them intimate questions about their lives, exploring things like stress and trauma, home lives, relationships and how they feel about themselves.”
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Why people fall for bullshit, according to a scientist
“The difference between bullshit and lying is that bullshit is constructed without any concern for the truth. It’s designed to impress rather than inform. And then lying, of course, is very concerned with the truth — but subverting it.”
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Joe Rogan Experience #2217 – Brian Cox
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Cosmic Perspective on Humanity
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.” — Carl Sagan
This quote by Carl Sagan, from his reflections on the “Pale Blue Dot” image of Earth taken by Voyager 1, is one of the most poignant and sobering commentaries on human nature and our place in the universe. It’s a powerful distillation of humility and perspective.
Sagan’s words emphasize just how small and fragile our planet—and everything that happens on it—really is when seen from a cosmic scale. His reflection on human conflict and the desire for domination exposes the tragic irony of our behavior: we commit immense violence and cruelty over borders, beliefs, and power, all while existing on what amounts to a speck of dust in an unimaginably vast cosmos.
The power of this quote lies in its juxtaposition. On one hand, it paints a picture of the grandeur and scale of the universe; on the other, it highlights the pettiness and destructiveness of much of human history. It’s both a critique and a call for introspection—an urging to reevaluate our values, actions, and the stories we tell ourselves about significance and glory.
Sagan’s message is not one of nihilism, though—it’s of responsibility. If this “dot” is all we have, then we ought to treat each other and the Earth with more care, compassion, and wisdom.
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Top Carbon Emitting Industries
The industry that creates the most carbon emissions globally is the energy sector, particularly:
- Electricity and heat production, which primarily relies on burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.
- This alone accounts for roughly 40% of global CO₂ emissions.
Other major contributors include:
- Industry (manufacturing, cement, steel, chemicals): ~21%
- Transportation (cars, trucks, planes, ships): ~16%
- Agriculture, forestry, and land use: ~18%
- Buildings (heating, cooling, electricity use): ~6%
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Why Do People Bully? The Scientific Reasons
“In a recent Ditch the Label study, we spoke to 7,347 people about bullying. We asked respondents to define bullying and then later asked if, based on their own definition, they had ever bullied anybody. 14% of our overall sample, so that’s 1,239 people, said yes. What we then did was something that had never been done on this scale before; we asked them intimate questions about their lives, exploring things like stress and trauma, home lives, relationships and how they feel about themselves.”
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Why people fall for bullshit, according to a scientist
“The difference between bullshit and lying is that bullshit is constructed without any concern for the truth. It’s designed to impress rather than inform. And then lying, of course, is very concerned with the truth — but subverting it.”
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RIP Pope Francis, 88, Is Dead
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Ricky Gervais And Stephen Go Head-To-Head On Religion
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Why people fall for bullshit, according to a scientist
“The difference between bullshit and lying is that bullshit is constructed without any concern for the truth. It’s designed to impress rather than inform. And then lying, of course, is very concerned with the truth — but subverting it.”
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Scientists find ‘strongest evidence yet’ of life on distant planet | BBC News
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Conservatives and Liberals Do Think Differently
“Liberals tended more than conservatives to use insight to solve verbal problems in which you have to ‘think outside the box,’” Salvi said. “Everyday life presents us with a variety of scenarios where we are asked to solve problems analytically, others only with a spark of insight, most of them can be solved either way. In this last case, liberals are more likely to achieve the solution with an ‘Aha!’ moment, whereas conservatives’ problem solving approach does not prefer one style or the other.”
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The creator of ‘The X-Files’ says this is the coolest real science fact he learned from the reboot
“CRISPR-Cas9 allows scientists to manipulate the genome in unprecedented ways. CRISPR is a portion of bacterial DNA that protects them from viruses, and they use the protein Cas9 to do it by cutting out pieces of the viral DNA. Researchers have hijacked this process to easily edit any piece of DNA, and even replace it with other DNA of their choosing.”