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...Lashkar Gah, Helmand's provincial capital, "some wheat farmers made more than poppy farmers." That's because opium poppy is a high-maintenance plant and costs five times as much to grow as wheat. Poppy is also expensive to harvest, requiring many laborers, who must scour each poppy pod and manually extract the opium; wheat can usually be harvested by a single farmer...
...same reason that humans lash out. "Even though whales are bright and very well trained, they can show aggressivity if they feel threatened or if they're in a bad mood," he says. "It can also be displacement, if they haven't had a good time with their pod members...
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Rapport also conducted a control experiment with the boys in which they watched the pod-racing scene from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. He showed me a video of a couple of the boys watching the scene, and I was shocked: even the ADHD kids who had spun around endlessly during their cognitive tests sat perfectly still while they watched the pod race. The film clip required almost no working memory, no concentrated effort. The scene simply washed over the passively watching boys, none of whom had to move around to stay alert...
...their fifties, has somehow managed to tap into the pleasure portions of my brain. And it’s admittedly terrible stuff. It’s cheesy, unrealistic, and incredibly sappy.But what’s wrong with that?Here’s how I imagine a conversation between i-Pod boy and his friend probably sounds like:“What are you listening to, man?”“The Sad Porcupines.”“Who?”“Oh, you probably haven’t heard them yet. They?...