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What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI So what have we learned? What are the lessons that come from the tens of thousands of pages of information that we've generated on these lives? Well, the lessons aren't about wealth or fame or working harder and harder. The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier . Period. Robert Waldinger, Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Zen priest Emotional Safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-RZYSTJAAo When we talk about discipline, a lot of time we are punitive because it's faster, restorative takes more time.  Using restorative measures is hard, because learning about emotions is hard, it requires lots of reading and research. Master most of the vocabularies of emotions. Study each of them in detail, learn about its definitions, compare and contrast the terms and find out subtle differences. Find out boo...

Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves biological, erotic, physical, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied over time, it lacks a precise definition . Multidimensional components indicate a specific sexual orientation and can include whether an individual: Engages in sexual behaviour with men, women, both or neither. Feels sexual desire for men, women, both or neither. Falls in love with men, women, both, or neither. Identifies himself or herself with a specific sexual orientation. The complexity and ambiguity of defining sexual orientation. The complexity and ambiguity of defining sexual orientation result from the varying combinations and degrees of these four components. For example, how much sexual attraction to and experience with the same sex can someone have and still be heterosexual? And, vice versa, how much sexual attraction to and behavior with the other sex ca...

Raising Taxes Very Rarely Results In As Much Revenue As One Expects You have to do it the hard way by improving the health of the economy, no alternatives. The best way to increase governmental tax receipts is to increase the health of the underlying economy so the velocity of money is higher.  Countries often find this out the hard way.  In the United States, individual states find it out the hard way, as well. https://www.joshuakennon.com/the-velocity-of-money-for-beginners/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q59tZKP0HME Quantity Theory of Money

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male The baby was fine—but follow-up tests had revealed something astonishing about the mother. Her body was built of cells from two individuals , probably from twin embryos that had merged in her own mother's womb. And there was more . One set of cells carried two X chromosomes , the complement that typically makes a person female; the other had an X and a Y . Halfway through her fifth decade and pregnant with her third child, the woman learned for the first time that a large part of her body was chromosomally male . “That's kind of science-fiction material for someone who just came in for an amniocentesis,” says James Sex can be much more complicated than it at first seems. According to the simple scenario, the presence or absence of a Y chromosome is what counts: with it, you are male, and without it, you are female. But doctors have long known that some people straddle the boundary— their sex chrom...

Lying is a cooperative act. It has no power in itself. Its power emerges when someone agrees to believe the lie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_6vDLq64gE

Effects of domestic violence on children, result from witnessing domestic violence in a home where one of their parents are abusing the other parent, plays a tremendous role on the well-being and developmental growth of children witnessing the violence . Children who witness domestic violence in the home often believe that they are to blame, live in a constant state of fear and are 15 times more likely to be victims of child abuse. Close observation during an interaction can alert providers to the need for further investigation and intervention, such as dysfunctions in the physical, behavioral, emotional, and social areas of life , and can aid in early intervention and assistance for child victims. The physical effects of domestic violence on children, different than the effects of direct abuse, can start when they are fetus in their mother's womb , can result in low infant birth weights, premature birth, excessive bleeding, and fetal death, due to the mother's physical trauma...

Generation Z will outnumber millennials in a year. By 2019, the third of planet will be 18 and under. How's their future in hypocritical democracy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IM-iw1KovE What is hypocritical democracy?  Also knows as baby eater democracy. https://iambrainstorming.blogspot.com/2019/01/from-hypocrisy-to-democracy-this-way.html Unemployment Half of India’s working-age population (15 years and above), is not contributing to any economic activity  https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/jobs/50-indias-working-age-population-out-of-labour-force-says-report/articleshow/67830482.cms Insect (pollinators) population is in decline, but not the human population, disruption of the ecosystem. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-insect-populations-decline-scientists-are-trying-to-understand-why/ UNSUNG HEROES Many people tend to think of animals as large, furry, likeable creatures. In reality, insects are the dominant form of animal life. Close a million species ...