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Perhaps you’ve read or heard about the article, “Ten Politically Incorrect Truths about Human Nature” (Psychology Today, Alan S. Miller, PhD., and Satoshi Kanazawa, Ph.D.)
Some of the things listed are not surprising – that men are physically attracted to blond Barbie-types, humans are naturally polygamous, most suicide bombers are Muslim, men become less competitive with age, and politicians do things like Clinton did.
Others many of us will not have heard of — offsets of the Trivers-Willard theory — wealthy couples with higher status have more sons. People with at least one son are less likely to divorce. And beautiful people are more likely to have daughters – 56% v. 48%. (One has to wonder if that is statistically significant. Seems to me to be hovering awful close to chance.)
Interesting too is the proposition that if a woman’s being harassed in the workplace, she’s being treated equally, at last. (Oh thank heavens, at last I can be abused like a man?)
But wait. Isn’t this the ten politically incorrect truths about our ANIMAL nature?
And haven’t we spent most of our time on earth trying to rise above our animal natures? Trying to get beyond the talon principle, nature red in tooth and claw, climb up out of the slime and stand on two legs?
These are instincts from the reptilian brain, which was programmed eons ago and which we still share with – um – reptiles. They are polygamous, yes. Their instincts are uncomplicated: “Can I eat it, will it eat me, can I copulate with it?” One politically incorrect behavior not mentioned because it’s so REALLY politically incorrect, is that we, as individuals, would like to kill someone in order to get what we want.
These may be truths about our animal nature, but many people manage to get to a higher level.
Some men find a courageous, loving brunette who may even be middle-aged and marry her and remain faithful.
Some men avoid becoming a suicide bomber even if in a country which encourages this. They refuse, or they emigrate to a country more favorable to the good life.
Not all politicians behave like Clinton did, even if they could “get away with it.”
There are CEOs who treat the men who work for them with respect. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you, after all, is using your thinking brain.
Some individuals continue being creative and productive well past the age when Gates and McCartney quit, because the drive is not at the animal level, it’s coming from higher up.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SAPIENS IN HOMO SAPIENS?
We have a limbic brain (why we do not eat our children when we’re hungry, like reptiles do), and a neocortex – which allows us not just to think, but to think about thinking. Therefore, we can note that we have an animal instinct operating (big deal) and choose not to act on it (that would be stupid). It isn’t a command. Unless you aren’t linked to your limbic brain and neocortex, that is. If our “human” nature is anything, it is the “homo sapiens” – we’re the ones who can think. That means we have choices.
This list of “human nature” is implicitly hooked in to the selfish gene theory, which is, after all, selfish. This is the “it’s all about me” side of human nature, amped up. But no less than Pope John Paul II has apologized for acts of “human nature” that were wrong, such as the missionary abuses against indigenous peoples of the South Pacific, and the persecution of Galileo Galilei, a case of workplace harassment if you will.
Killing people may be part of our animal nature, but caring for and about other people is part of our human nature. I thought we left Freud’s drive theory (sex and aggression) behind us in the last century. There is just as strong a drive to bond, nurture and protect, which of course would be included in the Politically Correct Truths list, but it goes beyond that. Human nature isn’t just about you and procreating your genes at the expense of others.
Some of the things Miller and Kanazawa mention may be part of our nature. They may be politically incorrect. But in some cases acting on them is just plain wrong.
And that’s why you got a limbic brain and neocortex to go along with that reptilian brain. So you’d know this and feel this!

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GARDENING

If you are a lover of nature you will definitely enjoy with gardening.

Gardening is the practice of growing plants for their flowers or foliage and vegetables or fruits for consumption. Gardening is a human activity in which plants are used to produce edible foods or to beautify the environment. Gardening is one of life’s purest pleasures. It’s a delight to all the senses such as sight, scent, touch, taste and hearing. And it’s good for you. Besides it’s a good exercise to you, gardening soothes the soul. And that has its own benefits- nurturing plants, seeing things grow, brings beauty into the world.

Gardening is the creative experience .Gardening does not require that participant have a degree in landscape architecture, a bit of planning will go a long way towards enhancing the beauty and the gardening experience overall. Doing gardening is an art. Maintaining the gardening and providing with proper nutrients and supplements to it is most essential thing in order to look more beautiful.

TIPS FOR GARDENING

GAREDNG SOIL

Before planting a plant the first important thing to be consider is soil .whether the soil is good for fertile or not. There’s an easy way to check if your soil is compacted. After a drenching rain, use a red surveyor flag. If you can easily push it into the ground at least 12 inches, your soil is fine. If it gets stuck and won’t budge just a few inches below the surface, you might want to add organic matter to it.

IRRIGATION

This is a vital key to any successful garden “water” getting the water source to your garden requires irrigation .Rain water does not contain any harmful contain such as fluorides and chemicals. By drip irrigation system into different lines can be controlled by timers and at the same time they can receive water.

PLANTER BOXES

Outdoor play is becoming increasingly rare among children both in the U.S. and the U.K., even in rural areas. Children are intimately familiar with complex virtual worlds and all their characters, yet no longer learn the names of the creatures that inhabit their back yards. This has far-reaching implications for emotional and physical development and for family life. Closeness to nature can even be a powerful antidote to attention deficit and other disorders.

Children in today’s world are under pressure from a number of sources, which is keeping them from the great – and small – outdoors. Studies and competition from televisions, computer games, mobile phones and other gadgets is all but severing young people’s connection with the natural world. Many children, unfamiliar with the wilds and for the most part living in urban settings, are even afraid of outdoors. Some of this fear is justified, but it is heightened by news coverage and reality TV shows. Parents are aware of the risks of accidents in the outdoor world, but increasing numbers of youngsters are beginning to suffer from repetitive stress injuries by overuse of keyboards and game consol.

Peter Cornall, head of leisure safety of Britain’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, even goes so far as to suggest that children who do not play outdoors may be more at risk from accident, because they have not learned by trial and error what is safe. Children need to get wet and stung by insects, they need to learn to slip, trip up, what hurts. Over and above this, mental health is reliant on outdoor play. Children who play in natural areas tend to be more creative and able to invent their own games. Nature play also lengthens the attention span. Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered that five-year-olds showed a significant reduction in symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when they had a chance to get to grips with nature. Proximity to nature in and around the home also promotes self-confidence and improves body-image.

It is not always easy to bring your children back into contact with nature, because life has become so urban. To make a small start, get your child to be more aware of a small area at the edge of a garden, field or pond. Concentrate on the boundaries – where the trees stop and a field begin, where rock and earth meet water. Sit motionless by a pond. Use all of your senses. Wait for the frogs to plop – or sing. Go rambling in woods or field with your children. Keep a nature journal, getting the child to use words or pictures to attempt to capture what he or she has experienced – the flight of a bumblebee, the bend and ping of a blade of grass.

It isn’t necessary to learn all the names of the plants and creatures, but to open your eyes and ears to them. Feeling is believing. American writer Deborah Churchman has a great idea – the moth walk: first blend up some fruit juice, a touch of beer or wine and some sugar or honey. Slap the mixture onto a tree or some other rough surface. Go back later and see what you have lured.

Encouraging the child to grow a garden or window box will be very rewarding and probably the best way of creating a lasting love of the natural world.

I am trying to compose an end scene for the play, i was thinking along the lines of, mickey eddie lying on floor together equal at last in death narrator walks to centre stage, says:
and then i get stuck, i need to come up with a rhyming end speech exploring the themes within the play.
I’ve tried and i’ve tried, but i can’t make anything sound right.
Help?

There has been growing recognition of the scope and threat of obesity. In the United States, one in four adults and one in five children are obese. And obesity has been steadily increasing. The health threats – heart disease, diabetes and cancer – are similar to those of smoking, and they tend to concentrate among the poor. These threats, too, are trending upward: one in three Americans born in 2000 is likely to develop diabetes. Direct and indirect costs of diabetes to the U.S. economy already were $132 billion in 2002. This problem has been building over time. Over the last 30 years American women have increased their daily caloric intake by 21 percent, or 325 calories, while men have added 170 calories to an already significant 2,450 calorie-base. Public awareness, however, has really wakened only in the last few years, with U.S. media coverage of obesity tripling since 2001. It is not surprising, therefore, that a sudden discovery of a steadily growing problem has generated false dichotomies and visible villains. The overriding false dichotomy is nature versus nurture. Are American society’s obese tendencies rooted in our physical or psychic make up, or are they based on changing eating habits and foodstuffs? The clear answer is: “both.” We are eating more but exercising less. There also is mounting evidence of genetic drivers toward obesity. Similarly, we are taking more meals out of the home – and not just at “fast food” restaurants. And we’re eating more processed foods, in larger portions. None of this finger pointing is likely to help us as a society get out of this situation. Fewer jobs require physical labor, so we must find more ways to burn up calories, whether in the gym or just climbing more stairs. Labeling foods as inherently good or bad ignores taste and common sense; all foods in moderation can be fitted into a slender figure. Nor does blaming portion sizes make sense; it ignores the thought processes that see bigger as the better bargain. No single solution exists, nor should any single culprit be seized upon. We need to see obesity in all of its complexity, if we are to sort out solutions that work for all of us.Food manufacturers and service industries need to be – and, I believe, are becoming – part of the solution. They are recognizing that their products contribute to the problem. So, there are things they can do to help. But, we are facing some real challenges in terms of consumer preferences. As this survey shows, consumers are most interested in foods that provide more convenience. That ranks well ahead of changing diets in pursuit of better nutrition. And before either of these comes preserving good taste for the things we voluntarily put in our mouths. An important tool in addressing the complexity of obesity is technology. Biotechnology and new processing methods are helping food companies capture useful ingredients and putting them in new places. Nanotechnology may help us engineer flavors and bioactive ingredients that will be satisfying to consumers and better for them. Cereals can be a great source of fiber and other healthful ingredients like:

• Polyphenols (phenolic acids, flavonoids, isoflavones, etc.)

• Saponins

• Lignans

• Tocopherols and other antioxidants

• EFAs

• Phytosterols

Soybeans are a great source of these ingredients and protein. These nutrition-enhancing ingredients can be extracted from grains and soybeans. They can be put into familiar products like breads, juices and the like in order to promote heart health, digestibility, bone strength, joint comfort and a feeling of satiety. Technology, however, is not a cure-all. First, there are problems in finding the right regulatory environment for new technologies and products. There are issues around rights of invention and proprietary ownership. And there are added costs in building many of these attributes into foods. Food also touches other sensitive chords. New products can be safe without being accepted by consumers. New processes can be proven to work without being trusted by consumers. And, weight gain is a gradual process; dealing with it – or its effects – can always be put off to another day. Between just letting obesity spread and nutrigenomic-designed diets will lie a host of incremental strategies. Food manufacturers will develop novel ingredients and ingredient combinations to deliver more nutrition tastefully. Even conventional agricultural products will be engineered or bred to offer health and appeal. And, growing awareness will lead to better choices for wellness – whether it is new foods, new self-discipline, new activity We will need choices to cover the differences between men and women, children and adults, young and old. Choice also helps make healthfulness a complement to taste, not an alternative. And we will need to take responsibility for our own behaviors. Technology and food service innovations can support good behavior, but success still starts with giving consumers what they want.

for example there were two boys in the south who killed their father. They had a genetic disorder that caused them to have more anger than others. If they had lived with parents who were constantly trying to stop their violence, would they still have turned out the same?

This question is connected to what we are born with vs. what we acquire as we mature.

a lot of people blame parents when someone,rapes ,kills or is a criminal in any other form.what about when there are 6 kids in a family and one turns out to be a serial killer,but the other five are upstanding citizens, do you think that nature has more to do with it?