Really, we don't need them, but the best ones can be amusing.
Evolution Made Us All from Ben Hillman on Vimeo.
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Yikes. Carl, how am I ever going to get that "parahuman" image out of my head!
Evolution Made Us All from Ben Hillman on Vimeo.
"The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way." -James Hillman
This essay hits the nail on the head, and could pretty much have appeared in the New York Times, minus some vocabulary: