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Mongols: The Last True Humans Part III

The Mongols were the last true humans. The last ones who understood what humanity was at its core, not the urbanized, stressed, maddened animals we have become.

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Mongols: The Last True Humans Part II

The nomadic Mongols had been able to conquer the Eurasian land mass through a combination of organizational ability, military skill, and fierce warlike prowess.

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Why Nature Is Trying To Kill Us Part IV

As long as we insist in our myopic quest to stand apart from nature, to consider that the almighty force of our civilization empowers us to be transgress all the rules of life itself, then our natural adversary will just come after us harder and stronger.

0 comments    medicine philosophy humanity
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Why Nature Is Trying To Kill Us Part II

If AIDS were to be eradicated from this earth, to be thrown into the incinerator of genetic material along with smallpox, then something else would step into its role.

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Why Nature Is Trying To Kill Us Part I

Medicine can destroy a disease. It can isolate a smallpox strain, hunt it down in every corner of the planet where it hides and finally, dramatically exterminate it. Yes, medicine can rid the world of a...

0 comments    medicine philosophy humanity
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A Critique Of Modern Medicine

There are many in the medical community who are so set in their ways that they cannot possibly acknowledge that there is anything at all in medicine beyond their view of the human body as strictly a...

4 comments    medicine philosophy humanity
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We Are In The Midst Of The Greatest Extinction In History

We have taken rangy, tough rangeland steers and evolved them into clumsy milk-gurgling meat balloons. We have taken fierce, brawny wild boars and changed them into mud-wallowing waddling sausages.

2 comments    history philosophy psychology
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Why Nature Is Trying To Kill Us Part III

Robin Williams jokes that an earthquake is just the Earth saying “Get these condominiums off my back!” In a similar way, we can consider that these Civilization Diseases are the Earth’s antibodies.

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Mongols: The Last True Humans Part I

The Mongols arose as a virtual handful of seemingly remote pastoral nomads to conquer much of the Eurasian landmass, ruling large parts of it for almost two centuries.

2 comments    history philosophy psychology
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Monogamy & Male Nipples

We have all heard the expression “as useless as teats on a bull.” Yet have we ever looked at the male human chest and wondered exactly what those nipples are for? It seems as every other anatomical...

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