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Photograph by Evgeny Vershinin
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| WHAT WE FOUND |
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The Man Who’s Moving His House Inch by Inch
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Phil Gordon is 77, and his cabin sits 247 feet above the Pacific on a collapsing cliff. Rather than move out, he is moving the house, by hand, at an inch an hour. Why he won’t just leave. ›
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Our Use of Fire Has Strange Ties to How We Can Talk
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Long before we had words for anything, there was fire. Two researchers now argue that gathering around it every night, warm, safe, with nothing else to do but talk, might be the exact reason humans developed complex speech in the first place. No other animal behaviour lines up this closely with when language actually emerged. There’s even a wild bonus theory: that firelight itself might chemically make late-night storytelling less tiring on the body. The campfire theory. ›
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| MORE GOOD STUFF |
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There Are No Psychopaths
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You’ve probably heard someone described as a “textbook psychopath,” maybe even Ted Bundy himself. Here’s the twist: when researchers actually dig into the science behind psychopathy, the empathy deficits, the brain differences, the whole profile, it barely holds up. A review of 66 studies covering nearly 6,000 people found essentially no measurable difference in empathy at all. Even Bundy doesn’t fit the mold once you look closely. So why does the idea refuse to die? Check it out. ›
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The Astonishing Hidden Life of Mr T
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Mr T is 74 and has not taken a serious role since 1991. He says he only ever wanted one thing, and he got it in the 80s. A fascinating man with a story we could all learn something from. See his story. ›
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| ONE TO FOLLOW |
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@historyresolves
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Daily breakdowns of history facts you’ve probably not seen before.
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| LAST WORD |
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“Where focus goes, energy flows.”
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— TONY ROBBINS
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