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Stem Cells and Morality — Sam Harris

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TED Talk — Jill Bolte Taylor: “My Stroke of Insight”

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I love TED.com. “Ideas worth spreading”, so true.
I recommend you the talk by Jill Bolte Taylor:
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness –- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.

“Fairness, idealism and other atrocities”

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There is an interesting read in the Los Angelos Times:
Fairness, idealism and other atrocities
1. Go out and make a bunch of money!
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There’s nothing the matter with honest moneymaking. Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box. In a free society, with the rule of [...]

Today Jolly Kunjappu, a 58 year old world traveling Indian who moved to Germany in 1970, held a speech here at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. Some of his former clients are BASF, Bayer, BMW, Hewlett Packard, IBM, L’Oréal and Lufthansa.
He talked about how knowledge, courage and respect can lead to success. Although he [...]

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