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Wed Aug 27

• Kids may be hardwired to 'share and share alike': study - Yahoo! News
• Yale Neuroscience
• Bacteria Go on Suicide Missions to Help Their Peers | 80beats | Discover Magazine

Tue Aug 26

• Monkeys experience joy of giving, too, study finds (NewsDaily): Capuchins prefer food sharing to eating alone - Frans de Waal study at Yerkes, in PNAS
• "Randy Pausch, The Professor Who Gave The Lecture Of a Lifetime" By Neely Tucker: It was not really complicated. Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, stood up last Sept. 18 and gave a talk to about 400 students, faculty and friends about some life lessons he'd learned. He was 47, he was in the early stages of pancreatic cancer,...
• "Social Lives of Bacteria May Yield Benefits for Humans" By David Brown: There's strength in numbers. The best defense is a good offense. And it's okay if a few die as long as most survive.
• Study shows monkeys experience joy of giving - Yahoo! News UK: Backs up the Damasio. Great stuff.
• Monkeys Enjoy Giving To Others, Study Finds: Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have shown capuchin monkeys, just like humans, find giving to be a satisfying experience. This finding comes on the coattails of a recent imaging study in humans that documented activity in reward centers of the brain after humans gave to charity.
• Test of charity shows monkeys are capable of empathy | Science | The Guardian

Mon Aug 25

• The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love: Their field of study is about all forms of unlimited love: altruism, compassion and service. A fairly new branch of science related to this is called Positive Psychology. You are free to become a member to attend a conference and learn about their projects to preserve the goodness of humanity.

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