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When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels. After some questioning, you find out that God's favorite book is Shelley's Frankenstein. He sits up at night with a worn copy of the book clutched in his mighty hands, alternately reading the book and staring reflectively at the night sky.
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Recently, evolutionary psychologist have turned their sights on love and divorce. It didn't take long to notice that when people fall in love, there's period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal signals in the body and breain are literally a love drug. And then it beginds to decline. From this perspective, we are preprogramed to lose interest in a sexual partner after the time required to r..
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The part of the light spectrum that is visible to us is less than a ten-trillionth of it. The rest of the spectrum--carrying TV shows, radio signals, microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, cell phone conversations, and so on--flows through us with no awareness on our part.
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In 1862, the Scottish mathematician James Clerk Maxwell developed a set of fundamental equations that unified electricity and magnetism. On his deathbed, he coughed up a strange sort of confession, declaring that "something within him" discovered the famous equations, not he. He admitted he had no idea how ideas actually came to him--they simply came to him. William Blake related a similar experience, reporting of his long narrative poem Mi..
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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
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