Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or do you want to put it in the stock market?" They're trying to push money into the stock market, into hedge funds, to temporarily bid up prices. Then, all of a sudden, the Fed can raise interest rates, let the stock market prices collapse and the people will lose even more in the stock market than they would have by the negative interest rates in the bank. So it's a pro-Wall Street financial engineering gimmick.
We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.