May I talk to your inner chimp?

Taken from Nature Newsfeature 29/01/2009: "much of a person’s everyday life is determined not by their conscious intentions and deliberate choices, but by mental processes put into motion by their environment" [...] "humans lived in social groups long before language evolved, and the language function presumably exists on top of a more archaic brain system for non-linguistic social signalling."
So despite our sophisticated linguistic communication, it's still our inner chimp that rules our world. Of course we're clever enough to exploit this knowledge to "improve sales success by as much as 20 %". 20 % more of things we neither want nor need, now that's fantastic progress; congratulation, Homo!

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité; For the French, this is not a motto, it is a ranking.
Liberté (to do what ever you want to do, regardless if it harms or annoys anyone): that's the most important!
Far, far behind, there is Egalité (meaning equally low; it is not because you work your bum off that you get more than those who do nothing).
and at the end of the list, there is Fraternité. Nobody knows what that means, really, but it comes at the end, so it shouldn't be important anyway.

SUEs

Unfortunately, our memory of persons tends to be dominated by Single Unpleasant Events (SUEs). Maggi is the one who farted during yoga class, Celine the one who burped at the beginning of a sentence...

Publicity

Publicity, adverts, displayed, played, popping up, appearing everywhere, all over, ever more agitated and noisy. Somehow it feels that these are the last hectic spasms of a dying system. Dying because it at last managed to bite its own bum.

Cacophonie

Science is about observing and deducing.
CONTEXT: The toilets in our new institute are sufficiently hear-through to allow, sitting on one, establishing statistics for the other.
RESULTS: With N>50, I now report that only about 5 % (+/- 2 %) of all toilet visitors wash their hands after usage.
CONCLUSION: While this explains with good confidence the impressive recurrence and spread of gastro-enteritis infections in our institute, further studies are needed to link this behaviour with the reputation of French citizens to be scruffy.

Petri Heil

Petri said: Spirituality is not something you do once in a while in a candle-lit room, wearing baggy clothes and burning incense, but something you do in your daily life.
Here we go.