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“BRAIN ODYSSEY SERIES” Resources for Show#1: “Shrink your Brain, Wreck the Planet.”

The Brain Odyssey:

Uncertain times? Global financial collapse? Political unrest?…
* Ever since his “Enlightening Meeting” in the early 90’s with famed neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson (the first to separate a pair of Siamese twins) Joel Bomane has been exploring with great passion – self taught – “The Role [...]

In the decade of Darfur and Iraq, and shortly after the century of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the claim that violence has been diminishing may seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. Yet recent studies that seek to quantify the historical ebb and flow of violence point to exactly that conclusion.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
by Steven Pinker
Introduction
Once [...]