Being an individual requires having a room of one’s own, not because it is one’s possession, but because only there, in solitude, away from the pressure of others, can one develop the features and styles that differentiate one’s own being from others.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/02/amelie-rorty-the-identities-of-persons/
An immensity of our reasoning is devoted to making sense of, or rationalizing, the emotional patters that underpin our intuitive responses to the world and therefore shape our very reality. Our interior lives unfold across landscapes that seem to belong to an alien world whose terrain is as difficult to map as it is to navigate.
http://www.ted.com/talks/moshe_szyf_how_early_life_experience_is_written_into_dna?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=image__2017-03-30 0:11 So it all came to life in a [...]
Breast milk grows babies' bodies, fuels neurodevelopment, provides essential immunofactors and safeguards against famine and disease — why, then, does science know more about tomatoes than mother's milk? Katie Hinde shares insights into this complex, life-giving substance and discusses the major gaps scientific research still needs to fill so we can better understand it.
