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...interesting that you say certain things one might expect to be related to empathy aren't, necessarily - like fairness. Fairness is something we started investigating in monkeys. We would have two capuchin monkeys side by side working on a very simple task. One would get cucumber pieces, and the other would get grapes. If they both get cucumber, they're perfectly fine. But if you give one of them grapes, the other guy is all of a sudden not happy anymore. Some explanations of fairness are the golden rule: I treat you well and in a fair manner because that...
...group primarily consisted of salt-and-pepper heads and a handful of students with previous ties to the documentary’s subject: the extensive moral strain on an Israeli soldier after his involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the film did not suggest the outrage one would expect; it instead refused to convey a clear sense of Mograbi’s attitude toward the conflict, whether he found the soldier’s war crimes deplorable or forgivable. This was not propaganda; it was provocation.Two days later, the arts and political world crossed paths on a national level...
...result is something that is very simple but is very robust in different grasping scenarios,” Jentoft said. “As a result, in the real world, when your object isn’t exactly where you expect it to be, the hand can adapt to it and doesn’t end up damaging itself or the object...
...Until then, it is reasonable to expect that Obama will remain in "a holding pattern," as one Western diplomat in Kabul put it, postponing the decision whether to send reinforcements or overhaul his political and military strategy in Afghanistan...
...work? Without bringing the economy to a grinding halt? That's the challenge. There's this idea that we'll revive the economy with green alternatives, but that's harder to pull off than we think. You can't just swap one form of consumption for another and expect to come out ahead...