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A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions a...

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The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from indivi...

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Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.

Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood willone day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravag...

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Major scientific insights are characteristically intuitive, and equally characteristically described...

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So far as I know, childbirth is generally painful in only one of the millions of species on Earth: h...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

This looks very much as if the integration of the day's experience into our memory, the forging of n...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

There is another connection between infancy and dreams: both are followed by amnesia. When we emerge...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of ...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

There is some evidence that dreaming is necessary. When people or other mammals are deprived of REM ...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are theemotional hallmarks of our species

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is contin...

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Guy de MaupassantThe Collected Novels and Stories of Guy de Maupassant