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The power of common ground

Surprisingly tiny factors can warp our judgments of other people. What can we do about it?

Are you a fair person? Most of us like to believe that the answer to this question is yes — that when we consider what is right and wrong, who deserves forgiveness and who deserves punishment, our judgments will be guided by objective, stable ethical values. Our justice system is built on the principle that everyone is equal before the law: We trust that juries will judge two people who have committed the same transgression equally. Likewise, if two people are victims of the same tragedy, we tend to think that each should evoke similar compassion. This ideal of blind justice is one of the few principles that spans most religious, legal, and political ideologies — a moral universalism trumpeted by thinkers from Pope John Paul II to Noam Chomsky.

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There’s just one problem with this view of ourselves as fair and objective — our minds don’t work that way. The past decade of psychological research has revealed that much of our moral decision-making, and indeed our deepest moral instincts, are guided less by conscious principles than by feelings and intuitions that can be influenced remarkably easily. And one key factor that shapes our judgment is a surprisingly simple one: how much we see the person we’re judging as similar to us.

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New findings are suggesting that this similarity doesn’t have to involve anything as obvious as being part of the same group or family. It can be something as subtle as wearing similar colored shirts or wristbands. In fact, in a new experiment, my colleague Piercarlo Valdesolo and I have shown that morality can be influenced even by simply tapping your hands in time with someone else’s. What these findings suggest is that any marker of association with others — even seemingly trivial ones — can alter our underlying moral calculus.

The implications are significant, for both individuals and society as a whole. Our intuitive morality has a huge impact on our decisions about people — whether we help, disparage, trust, or convict them. So if those unconscious instincts run contrary to our cherished moral beliefs about justice, it is surely in our interest to begin to recognize this fact — and perhaps even to correct for it.

We all know from experience that many moral judgments are not neutral. They can be colored by team spirit, or nationalism: We would all expect an American soldier in Afghanistan to feel more compassion for a wounded fellow soldier than for a wounded member of the Taliban. Likewise, we know that people are willing to excuse loved ones for transgressions they would abhor in a stranger: There’s a reason the family members of a defendant would quickly get booted off a jury. And then there’s learned prejudice — caste systems, racism, or other divides that influence our moral judgments of others.

These weighted judgments are examples of what philosophers call moral relativism — the position that what is just and moral depends on the people and contexts involved. However, we tend to imagine that we can step back and overcome such impulses when we make reasoned moral decisions.

But can we really? Is this moral relativism a learned, consciously directed response — a rational choice to protect people we care about, for example — or is it something more intrinsic to how the mind works? If the latter is true, our ability to be fair judges may be more compromised than we realize.

Piercarlo Valdesolo and I wanted to see just how basic moral relativism was to the mind. We suspected that if moral relativism were truly fundamental and unconscious, then the tiniest temporary differences between two people would alter responses to their plights. So we set out to observe the compassion that research subjects would feel toward various victims of the same transgression who were, in extremely trivial ways, made to seem either more or less similar to them.

We knew we couldn’t simply ask people how they would respond. If morality were guided by mechanisms beneath human awareness, our subjects would be unlikely to accurately predict what they would feel or do in response to a hypothetical event. Instead, we needed to stage a situation in which research participants would view one person causing distress to another, and then see how they actually judged the situation. So, at the lab, we had subjects watch two men engage in a task where one cheated the other to avoid onerous work. As a result of the cheating, the “victim” was wrongly assigned to complete an hour of drudgery while the “cheater” got off scot-free. Afterward, we had the observers, alone and on a computer, report their evaluations of the events and how they felt toward the victim. The computer noted that they were then free to leave — or if they wanted, they could come find us and ask to help the victim complete his work.

But here was the catch: Right before participants watched these events unfold, we had them sit at a table and tap their hands to musical beats with the person who would later play the role of the victim. By design, some people were made to tap their hands in unison with him; others tapped asynchronously. Why the hand tapping? It was a way to create a sense of similarity based on an entirely meaningless criterion — a criterion that no participant had ever cared, much less thought, about.

And that was all it took for moral relativism to emerge. Simply having tapped their hands in time with the victim increased the level of similarity to him that people felt. It also increased the degree of compassion they felt for his plight, and directly altered the odds of their offering help. People who had tapped in time with the victim were more than 30 percent more likely to offer to help him, even though they seemed to have no conscious idea of why they decided to do so.

In other work, we have demonstrated that simply having people wear different color wristbands to indicate their use of a (fictitious) style of solving math problems can lead to the same kind of bias. People judged the transgressions of individuals wearing the same color wristband as themselves to be much less objectionable than the exact same transgressions committed by someone wearing another color. Once again, individuals seemed to have no idea that the wristbands they had just put on were shaping their views, but this relatively meaningless marker nonetheless caused their moral principals to be applied differentially.

Why does the mind work this way? Over the past decade, research in moral psychology has demonstrated time and again that much of moral “reasoning” does not involve conscious reasoning at all. Rather, as moral psychologists such as Joshua Greene and Jonathan Haidt have shown, our moral judgments are strongly shaped by unconscious responses and situational influences. Greene’s neuroimaging work was among the first to document the interaction of conscious and unconscious mechanisms in moral decision-making. As his findings suggest, morality is determined to a large extent by ancient, adaptive mechanisms that operate outside of awareness. In essence, we often choose to help or to harm others not because we believe it is right, but because we feel it is right.

If the evolutionary chisel shaped the moral mind, it’s important to recognize that its goal is not virtue, but survival for reproductive advantage. And from that perspective, basing morality on the sliding scale of similarity to others may be a good strategy. Similarity, after all, can be a marker for people whose goals we share and who will help us in the future. Greater compassion toward those who resemble us, then, makes a certain kind of sense: It stands to improve our own chances.

Still, even if our unconscious relativism is biologically advantageous, that doesn’t mean we must see it as morally right. It is the role of science to tell us how our minds work, not what we should ultimately decide.

In cases where we want to be fair, these new findings suggest that avoiding moral relativism is not as simple as deliberately clearing our minds of bias. In many cases, the things that bias us are too subtle for us to perceive, meaning that we’d be unlikely to feel the need to “correct” our views.

A better strategy might be to change the way we conceive of others on a more basic level — by framing them as more similar to ourselves. The trick is to make such categorizations become habitual, and thereby automatic. A white Bostonian with a new Pakistani neighbor who is a Yankees fan could, instead of dwelling on their differences, try thinking of the same person as a new fellow Bostonian who, like himself, is an aficionado of the local Starbucks.

In fact, some moral systems encourage just such strategies. In Buddhist techniques of compassion meditation, practitioners train their minds to see all individuals — friends and foes alike — as interchangeable and interconnected. Based on the above experiment, it’s easy to imagine that repeatedly drawing attention to links as opposed to differences would increase our sense of the radius of similarity that surrounds us — and with it, our experience of a more universal compassion.

On an anecdotal level, at least, there is evidence that such a feeling of commonality can transcend even violent conflicts. On Christmas Eve 1914, during World War I, a strange event occurred outside Ypres, Belgium. The British and German troops had been locked in a long and bloody battle. Yet as the Brits stared across the battlefield, they began to hear their German counterparts singing Christmas carols. The Brits soon answered in kind, and quite rapidly, these men, who moments before had been bitter enemies, emerged from their trenches to fraternize and celebrate the holiday together. Instead of being British and German, they were fellow Christians, and with this increased similarity, the hostility miraculously melted away.

At that moment, of course, the British high command was more concerned with survival than with universal compassion. Irate, and with an excellent understanding of the instincts that allow us to fight our fellow men, they forbade fraternizing with the enemy and began rotating the troops, to ensure any such fellow feeling would not arise again.

David DeSteno is an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern University and coauthor, along with Piercarlo Valdesolo, of “Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us.”
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In its latest annual survey the International Energy Agency projects that the United States will become the world’s largest oil producer around 2020, thanks to the new production technique of “fracking.” This news doubtless will dismay the Chicken Littles and ascetics who infect the community of American liberals.

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Boaters even thinking of braving the high seas this time of year are being warned of waves up to 9 feet and a gale warning is in effect.

The National Weather Service released the warning (see the map above) for all of the Massachusetts coast. Here's the release:

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Sarah Negahdari (photo by Zoe-Ruth Erwin), Robert Francis, The Henry Clay People

Sarah Negahdari (photo by Zoe-Ruth Erwin), Robert Francis, The Henry Clay People

Continuing on with part II of my Eastside L.A. Bands 2012 Roundup. Again, I’m only including artists who either are doing significant touring this year, or who have a new album just out, very recently out, or are working on something. If I’ve missed anyone or something big, please let me know. I’m going to bed now. Goodnight and good luck.

Pisces (Sarah Negahdari of The Happy Hollows) | Princeton | Radar Brothers | Radars To The Sky | Radamacher | Robert Francis | Seasons | Sea Wolf | Shadow Shadow Shade | Silversun Pickups | Summer Darling | The Airborne Toxic Event | The Deadly Syndrome | The Happy Hollows | The Henry Clay People | The Monolators | The Parson Red Heads | The Union Line | Voxhaul Broadcast | Walking Sleep

A new sweet and folky side-project from the lovely Sarah Negahdari (The Happy Hollows). According to Sarah, after they’re finished with that, she’ll be releasing all of her Pisces material, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime…

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Their second album, Remembrance of Things to Come is due out February 21. They’ll be performing some shows on the West Coast, plus Utah and Colorado. Have a listen below, and if you like what you hear, you can preorder the limited edition vinyl at Hit City U.S.A. and get a bonus 7″ and free digital download. Oooh… pretty strings! Lovely stuff.

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Radar Brothers

There’s been a series of vague comments since last July, with the last one in November “I guess this thing isn’t gonna mix itself…,” strongly suggests a new album in the works.

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Radars To The Sky

They released their very nice sounding 3-track Detritus EP last month, and have a show coming up on Feb. 23 at The Satellite in Los Angeles. Last month, they also took part in an amazing night of music to celebrate the first public screening of the Pass the Music documentary, along with Manhattan Murder Mystery, Movies Tribute Band, Tenlons Fort and Joey Siara.

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Big doings for Rademacher. They’ll be releasing Baby Hawk III on March 6 (part III of their ‘concept EP trilogy’). You can preorder it now. And they’ve been invited to SXSW for an official showcase! They currently have a IndiGoGo campaign to raise the necessary funds to get there – and to press up vinyl copies of the new EP and for other promo stuff. I didn’t realize this, but back in 2009 they were also given a sxsw showcase, but didn’t have enough money to get there. So if you can, please help ‘em out! They also have shows in March in California, Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona. One of my favorite bands, I have yet to see them perform, but hopefully that will change in the near future. For now, let’s have a listen to Baby Hawk II.

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Robert Francis

His new album, Strangers In The First Place will be released on May 22nd. It’s his first recording for Vanguard Records. He’s currently touring with Mat Kearney, and after that, he’ll be at SXSW. Hopefully he’ll make it out to the East Coast this year; would love to see him again. For now, here’s an amazing acoustic version of a song from the new album, “Some Things Never Change.”

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During a January residency at the Echo, they released their new EP Autumn (listen below). It looks like they have a March 12 show at The Satellite in L.A., but before that, there’s this odd festival called “Open Mic Night After The Apocalypse” at some place called Slab City near the Salton Sea. Ok, so I guess this is an actual place. If you know where this is and can get there, they’ll be performing with Manhattan Murder Mystery, Stab City, Judson McKinney and others on February 25th. There’s a IndieGoGo campaign to make this happen.

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Sea Wolf

New music! The “Songs of the Magpie”/”Where the Winds Blow” single is available digitally or on vinyl (listen below). They’re in the studio recording their third full length album for release in the spring.

Song of the Magpie/Where The Wind Blows by Sea Wolf

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Shadow Shadow Shade

They recently released a new song and video – “Maybe I Could Love.” Not sure what else is up. For the record, this is the band formerly known as Afternoons. New name, just as wonderful.

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Silversun Pickups

They’re currently recording album #3 (Neck of the Woods, due out May 8), and they’ll be at Sasquatch in May and Edgefest in Toronto in July.

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Summer Darling

They’re recording a new album, and released a demo of “Rowena.” Nice. You can follow their progress.

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The Airborne Toxic Event

After the mad touring of last year, it seems there’s no major tour scheduled for 2012. Instead, they’ve been working on new songs for their next album. There’s only five dates scheduled as of now for this year (Dresser WI on Fri; UCR Riverside CA on 3/3, Tempe AZ on 4/21, UCSB Santa Barbara CA mid/late May (students only?), and Berlin Germany on 7/27-29 – all festivals). Though I imagine we may see some shows added later on this year (i.e. late spring/summer), maybe with previews of some new music… here’s hoping!

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The Deadly Syndrome

Looks like production is complete on a new album in the works. This will be #3, after the truly marvelous Nolens Volens of 2010.

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The Happy Hollows

Currently overdubbing for their second album at Infrasonic Studios in Alhambra, CA. You can follow their progress and make sure they’re hard at work. The most recent little peek is below. LOVE these guys. Be sure to check out Sarah’s Pisces project also.

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The Henry Clay People

Ah, the Henry Clay Peeps. Another band that holds a very special place in my heart, having seen them careen crazily around on many stages and sound absolutely marvelous. They promise more new album info soon, but in the meantime, they’ve been posting some live videos of new songs. In fact, another one appeared just today (see below). The song is “Anymore or Anyless.” Sounds sweet, happy, noisy, and like classic HCP. Oh yeah, they’ll be at SXSW!

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The Monolators

They’ll be performing at The Satellite in L.A. on 3/2, and will be “performing new songs for a very special project that we’ve been working on for two years.” Not quite sure what this means. New album?

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The Parson Red Heads

Tracking for the next Parson Red Heads album starts Monday 2/20 – excellent! They promise regular updates on their facebook page. They’ll also be at SXSW. This is getting to be a common theme. I’m starting to get really sad that I can never afford to go to this.

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The Union Line

Nice guys, great band. They have a *free* show with Incan Abraham at the Bootleg Theater on Feb. 20 (right, that’s in Los Angeles), and they’ll be at, that’s right, SXSW.

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Voxhaul Broadcast

They’re currently recording a new album at the legendary Village Studios. Check out their facebook page for updates. They’ll be performing in Mexico on March 10 with Modest Mouse, Blonde Redhead and Public Enemy. Now there’s a show… Also Las Vegas on Feb. 27 and a March residency at The Satellite. Also, their song “Leaving on The 5th” is featured on the soundtrack for the new film The Vow, along with bands like The National, Lykke Li and The Cure. Very cool.

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Walking Sleep

(Flying Tourbillon Orchestra – years later, I’m still adjusting)
Nothing new from Walking Sleep since their Tarp Sessions of last year, but vocalist/guitarist and autoharp player Sara Radle has a solo album release party in Los Angeles this Saturday. Her fifth solo record “Same Sun Shines” is due out Feb. 21. You can listen to it (and order) on bandcamp. [Editor's note: just found out she'll be performing at PA's Lounge in Somerville on March 29th!]

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Music on the electronic frontier

Sonic Bloom Festival celebrates fifth birthday

By Dave Kirby

Jamie Janover is a guy who’ll tell you that you can’t do everything all at once, and then proceed to more or less prove himself wrong.

The journeyman electro-acoustic musician — hammered dulcimer player to the ages, percussionist, electronic composer/improviser, core member of Zilla, guest artist to a withering resume of improv-sympathetic bands and artists — is in the last week-before-showtime throes of juggling logistics and returning phone calls in support of the fifth year of the Sonic Bloom Festival, the rave-in-the-sun electronic music festival, staged this year up at the Mish outside of Fort Collins.

We were grateful to find the guy composed and generous with his time last week, a surprising temperament for someone trying to pull off a slightly massive enterprise combining 30 music acts, visual and performance artists and workshop hosts.

A lot of kids might grow up wishing to be the Jane’s Addiction Perry Farrell; almost no one thinks about becoming the Lollapalooza Perry Farrell. We wondered if the whole concert promotion thing — buried in the gruesomely mundane arcana of trash can locations, counting porta-potties and cable routing — has taken a bite out of the otherwise frenetically busy musician’s schedule.

“Really, it takes more of a bite out of my lying around, just relaxing, doing-nothing life,” he says. “I’m still playing 25 festivals this year, I’m still making records. … I’m still doing these lectures on Unified Field Theory. … I still have the creative part, I just don’t have very much chilling-out time.”

What started as a throw-together gig at the nowdefunct Trilogy Lounge back in 2006 now sprawls over three days, a watershed ceremony for the burgeoning electronic music scene that’s grown up around Zilla, EOTO and related acts along the Colorado Front Range, sub-progeny to the now longestablished jam and improv scene extending back to late 1980s prehistory.

“I knew it was for real from the beginning because of the art. In terms of the content, in terms of the platform for not just musicians, but painters, dancers, aerialists, fire performers, people who do workshops, I’m incorporating as much as I know into this event.

People being able to do what it is they do. Obviously, music is the main thing. There’s more music than anything else, but it’s also ‘Let’s get out information, let’s educate, let’s do the Conscious Alliance thing and feed some people who are hungry, let’s teach people about electronic music production using Ableton.’ “I always knew that this was going to be a good thing for artists, and for people who like to absorb and interact with art, but to know that it’s actually financially viable as a sustainable enterprise, that’s exciting. I’m not just doing this a couple of years; I’m definitely in it for the long haul.”

But the festival ethos can be a very different experience as a performer than as a promoter.

“I go to literally 20 festivals a year, and have been for the last 10 years, so I know what makes a festival good, and what makes a festival not so good.

“But now I notice background stuff. How security is doing their job. The feel and the layout of the stages, the routes people walk from camping to get to the stages, stuff like that. It’s like a big puzzle. There’s an art to it, like when you walk in and there’s symmetry or some beautiful layout with good sightlines. … Someone has to decide where everything goes.”

And along with all that comes decisions. In the waning days of the Big Record Machine, festivals have become even more vital to launching careers and getting a young band’s gig out in front of an audience. On the other side of the equation, though, there’s still a process that faintly mimics the “who’sin and who’s-out” gatekeeping the labels and L.A. suits used to do.

“Of course, you can’t be everything to all people. Even a festival like High Sierra doesn’t have Megadeth, and they don’t have opera, and they don’t have Jay-Z. … We’re a boutique, niche kind of community,” Janover says.

In addition to performing — periodically these days with Zilla, more frequently with LYNX — Janover also does lecture workshops on the Unified Field theories of Nassim Haramein, a cosmology theorist who has tackled the bedeviling questions surrounding gravitation, electromagnetism and the structure of the universe. Janover will conduct a lecture on Haramein’s work during Saturday’s events.

Although Janover’s lectures on this subject can extend to 13 hours or longer, and at the risk of sounding a little trivial, we asked for a brief overview.

He drew a breath. “For him, there are only two forces,” Janover explains. “One force goes away from the center, and one force goes toward the center. … Those two things are called gravity and electromagnetism.”

And in a dervish of theoretical energy and matter constructs, Janover demonstrates how Haramein rewrites the conventional paradigms of the strong and weak nuclear forces, posits that the singularity of black holes represents the essential model of all creation, and basically reworks quantum and particle physics to solve the Riddle of Everything in a single theoretical model — precisely the grail that kept Einstein pacing his office the last decades of his life, and that still keeps tenured cosmologists at Stanford awake at night.

“I’ve been doing this for about two years now and gotten a lot of good feedback from people who basically say that, despite not being able to sit still long enough to listen to anybody, that they didn’t get up to go pee for three hours,” Janover says.

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The Argument from Design by J.B.S.Haldane (1944)

I have recently been reading Paley's Evidences of Christianity as every good Rationalist should. Paley attempts, with very great skill, to prove the existence of a creator from the design of living organisms. Of course a good many of his arguments were met by Darwin.

It is clear that, given the facts of heredity and variation, organisms tend to adapt themselves to their environment without any conscious planning by themselves or anyone else. But it is by no means proved that the whole course of evolution from single-celled organisms to oaks, daisies , ants, and men can be explained on these lin es.

There are real difficulties in the evolution of such an organ as the eye, where many parts must vary together to produce an improvement. I have tried to meet them from a neo-Darwinian standpoint, but my argument is not so strong as the general argument f or Natural Selection.

Again, the evolution of instincts presents great difficulties. They cannot be inherited memories in the most interesting case - that of social insects. For since the ancestors of worker bees and ants were not workers, they have instincts quite different from any of their ancestors.

The chemical organisation of a cell is immensely complicated, and it is hard to see how an organism could work at all unless it were of extreme chemical complexity. I think, therefore, that a reasonable man should be prepared to examine arguments which a ssume a measure of design in living creatures,even though I do not personally think that they are cogent.

Now Paley imagined an intelligent savage picking up a watch and concluding that it had been designed. He then argued that animals show far more evidence of design than watches. And he next argued that the designer had manu of the characteristics of the G od whom he worshipped.

To my mind his argument leads to a radically different conclusion.

Let us suppose an intelligent savage to come upon one of the battlefields of World War II , and to examine tanks, artillery, rifles, land mines, and other weapons left behind in the desert. he might well conclude that these weapons had been designed, but a slight further exercise of intelligence would convince him that they had not all been designed by the same person or group of persons. He would conclude that the British weapons had been designed to destroy the German ones, and conversely. He might have a little difficulty if he got evidence that the Germans and Italians had had a scrap on their own, but we may omit this complication.

Now the most conspicuous features of animal organisation are those which are designed (if they are designed) for competition with other living creatures, and often for their destruction. All animals live by eating other animals or plants. They may kill t hem, as we kill rabbits and potatoes, or merely eat parts of them, as we eat parts of the apple tree and the flea drinks parts of us.

A few, such as the blowflies, beetles, and 'worms', actually mostly insect larvae, which eat our bodies if they get the chance, eat only dead food, apart from bacteria. And these exceptional pacifists are not the noblest of animals. The plants generall y compete by pushing, rather than biting. Look at a plantain spreading its leaves over the grass of your lawn, or a tree cutting off the sun from the plants below it till they die. Though only a few higher plants, like the sundew and the mistletoe, actua lly eat other living things, they are all engaged in a merciless struggle for life.

Of course biologists have devoted much of their time to the internal co-ordination of organisms. If this is attributed to a designer it shows very great ingenuity and no malice. However, a tank resembles a motor-car or a tractor in many of its features, buts its essential function is to carry a gun for the purpose of destruction. And when we consider animals, not in terms of the relations of their parts but of their relations to other animals, the same is true of them.

If, then, animals were designed, they were designed for mutual destruction. If there was one designer, he is or was a being with a passion for slaughter, like that of the ancient Romans, and the world is his Colosseum. A much more reasonable consequence of the hypothesis of design is Polytheism. If each one of the million or so animal species were the product of a different god, their mutual struggle would be intelligible.

One must particularly admire the ingenuity of the creators of some of the parasites, particularly those with several hosts. For example, the digentic trematode worms, such as bilharzia , which pass one generation in a water snail and another in human beings, causing an extremely painful chronic disease often terminating in cancer, are an amazing piece of work. So are the malaria parasites, which live alternately in mosquitoes and human blood.

A seaman dying of thirst on a raft may well curse Whitehead, who invented the torpedo. Trematode larvae surrounding a water snail and ramming their front ends into it look remarkably like little torpedoes when seen through a microscope. and, unlike the h uman creation, they multiply inside their victims and produce another generation which kills men or sheep. In fact, Whitehead was a mere amateur compared with the creator of bilharzia

Wherever Paley's argument leads, it does not lead to Christianity. If pushed to its logical conclusion it forces us to believe in a malignant creator or , more probably, in a number of malignant creators. Certainly this creator or these creators are not wholly malignant. The world of life contains a great deal of beauty and pleasure , but one can admire the beauty only by closing one's consciousness to the pain and injustice which are bound up with it. A biologist who has spent his life in the study of parasitic animals must inevitably smother his feeling of pity to some extent and tend to take misery and injustice for granted.

But the moral effect of the belief that the world was made by a benevolent and almighty creator is vastly worse. C.S.Lewis's book, The Screwtape Letters , is a good example of its effects on an intelligent man.

The book is supposed to be written by a devil. The devil is strongly in favour of modern medical practice, which in many cases has robbed death of its pain and terror. He is by no means enthusiastic about war, which gives many people the experiences of s uffering needed to turn their minds to God.

If the world of Nature is God's plan, the attempts to banish pain are contrary to this plan. So are attempts to perfect human society by eliminating the various evils which men inflict on one another. The religionist can point out the impossibility o eli minating cruelty and injustice completely.

Nor can one eliminate pain completely, but it is possible to reduce it to such a level that for years one may have no pain which interferes with normal action and thought. And Marxists, among others, believe that by applying scientific methods to human a ffairs it will be possible to cut down injustice and cruelty to a similar extent. All Buddhists, most if not all Hindus, and most Christians believe this to be impossible , and further, that it is a dangerous illusion to think it possible. Conversely, th ose who think that the establishment of 'heaven on earth' is something worth trying must regard the religions as dangerous illusions, whatever services they have rendered to men in the past.

Darwin made it reasonable to reject the argument from design, and the evil god or gods to which it leads if carried to its logical conclusion. We have not yet realised what an immense advance in our moral ideas this has made possible.

Naturally enough, many of the early Darwinists retained the veneration for Nature which is justifiable if it is God's handiwork. They therefore used Darwinism to justify various forms of human struggle, including war and unrestricted economic competition . T.H. Huxley, by contrasting the ethical process and the cosmic process, did his best to combat this tendency. But, as he took so much of the structure of the society in which he lived for granted, he underestimated the power of the ethical process.

Today we see that cut-throat competition, both between species and to a lesser extent within them, was a necessary condition of evolution. We also see that it is so no longer. We can control the evolution of animals and make unprecedented creature, such as the jersey cow and the Angora rabbit, for our needs. We shall be able to control our own, though very fortunately we do not yet know how to do so.

My own most important scientific work has been to accumulate some of the preliminary knowledge; for example to map some of the genes on a section of one of the twenty-four pairs of human chromosomes. It is abundantly clear that the amount of such prelimi nary work needed is so great that we shall not have the necessary knowledge for some centuries. By this time a Marxist may reasonably hope that human society will be so far improved that there will be agreement on the innate characters desirable in man, and willingness to alter our breeding habits accordingly.

We can look ahead to this. If human society is brought near to what we should now regard as perfection in the next few thousand years, our descendants will find Nature pretty revolting. The scream of a rabbit caught by a weasel will be as horrible as tha t of a rabbit in a trap to sensitive ears today.

If we abolished weasels, sportsmen, and other enemies of rabbits today, they would increase till they did vast damage to crops and trees arvation. Over-production, as Darwin saw, is a universal character of living things, and a necessary condition for Na tural Selection. To abolish the needless pain of Nature we should need to check this over-production, as we already do to some extent with our domestic animals. The lion and the lamb will be able to lie down together when we can provide the lion with a d iet high in proteins not derived from lambs but from vegetable or synthetic sources.

Speculations of this kind may seem ridiculous in the middle of a war. I believe that they are justified because we are apt to think that because widespread misery is part of nature it is therefore unavoidable. Those who are opposed to a radical reconstru ction of human society naturally take this view.

It is also important that Rationalists should examine the arguments brought forward in favour of various religious dogmas and see where they really lead. Defenders of religion invariably stop in the middle. Thus the argument from design leads on to Polyt heism; most of the arguments for the immortality of the soul also prove that it is not trammelled by space and therefore omnipresent. The argument , which is an essential part of Catholic theology, that God must have founded an institution or proclaim hi s will to mankind leads directly to atheism. For if there is such an institution it must be the Catholic or the orthodox Church, and their records prove that they are far from divine. Similarly an Idealist cannot logically stop short of Solipsism.

It is essential that we should study the economic and social origins of religious beliefs, and the irrational but profound psychological needs which they partially satisfy. But as long as these beliefs are alleged to be capable of rational proof it is ou r interesting, and sometimes amusing, duty to study these alleged proofs, and to see what, if anything, they really prove.

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One of the perpetual Hot Stove League (Cool Fan League? I suppose we should modify the lingo to match the calendar) topics for college fans is comparing the talent level in the various wood bat college summer leagues. This is an attempt to quantify some of that discussion by throwing some numbers at the problem. As it turns out, there's not one clearcut metric that shows league quality perfectly (and there won't be until we can better integrate lower division and junior college stats, since those players make up such a large part of the summer leagues), so I'll throw out a few that I've come up with and discuss the implications. This is not a comprehensive list of leagues -- it's basically a list of leagues that were important enough that at least one of the pro clients asked for a stat report on them and that had a league web site that had both full rosters and season stats -- but it gets most of the important leagues. The Alaska, Valley, and Texas leagues are the only ones of any significance that I can think of that are missing.

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Cal Ripken   66   120.6   31.6   0.797   6.27
California   33   139.9   41.8   0.842   5.66
Cape Cod   94   204.8   51.2   0.929   4.77
Florida   25   106.0   24.0   0.769   4.72
Jayhawk   34   173.0   32.4   0.839   5.62
Mink   14   106.3   29.7   0.830   5.39
New England   67   150.5   33.8   0.877   5.81
New York   41   118.8   31.6   0.791   6.33
Northwoods   31   148.9   36.7   0.878   6.02
Prospect   41   128.9   29.3   0.826   6.60
West Coast   53   102.8   29.2   0.838   4.84

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D1% -- the percentage of roster players who are identifiable as having been on a D1 roster in the spring of 2010. As with all other measures, this one shows the Cape Cod League as the clear leader, which surprises no one (to the extent that I won't mention it much from here on). This one serves as a reminder that not all D1 teams are created equally, if you look at a bit, as the New England Collegiate Baseball League is made up largely of players from weaker Northeastern D1 teams, while the West Coast and Cal Ripken leagues are generally representative of better teams.

AvePA and AveIP -- average plate appearances or innings pitched in the 2010 college season for players who were on D1 rosters. This gives an indication of the age and experience of the players represented; does the summer league have mostly younger players who aren't full-time college players yet or older college players who are trying to get ready for pro ball? The Jayhawk League fares well here, while the Florida and West Coast leagues do poorly.

AveAOPS -- average adjusted on-base percentage and slugging for the 2010 college season for players who had at least 50 PA's on a D1 roster. OPS is adjusted by strength of schedule and park factor for each player and averaged. This gives a good weighted measure of the quality of the hitters that the summer league draws. Combining this with the other numbers gives an interesting picture of the Northwoods League; it draws a relatively small percentage of D1 players, but the ones that it gets look to be pretty good. The NECBL also does well here.

AveAERA -- average adjusted earned runs average for the 2010 college season for pitchers who had at least 25 IP's on a D1 roster. I don't have a great single adjusted rate metric for college pitchers, so I'm a bit ambivalent about using this one -- it's ERA adjusted by the team strength of schedule and park factor. The problem is that an individual pitcher usually doesn't face an average schedule for his team or get the same mix of ballparks. Take this one with a grain of salt.

Overall, other than the clearcut win for the Cape, this leaves me a little fuzzy as to who's second, or to even who the second tier is. Overall, the NECBL, Jayhawk, and Northwoods leagues look good, but if you pay less attention to the D1% column (which may be reasonable, given the strength of the California JC ranks, for example), the California and West Coast leagues may join them.

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With the saga continuing – Sami Khedira’s future remains well and truly in the balance. Said to be favouring Arsenal, then a move was called off due to his high wage demands, then Chelsea were coming in for the German, now Arsenal have said to have agreed a fee…it’s quite a story.

As the German mulls over a decision as to where he wants to be playing his football next season, it leaves clubs in a state of limbo. Preparing for the worst, clubs must be ready to implement “Plan B”, should a play snub a move.

With Arsenal heavily involved in the transfer and targeted Khedira as their key man to help their midfield, it would be the Gunners who would lose out more if Khedira should decide to shun a move to North London. With Chelsea quite content on their jam-packed midfield, Arsenal will need to look at “Plan B”.

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Here are two players who could fill the boots and do a job for Arsenal.

Morgan Schneiderlin – The Frenchman was gifted a World Cup debut for France in their 0-0 draw with Ecuador. The centre midfielder plies his trade in the Premier League with Southampton. The tall, strong and technical midfielder would give Arsenal a robust feel to the midfield. Allowing play to flow in the centre, Schneiderlin offers a presence in the box from set-pieces something Arsenal will want at their disposal to act as another threat. The 24-year-old is very gifted on the ball and is always happy to chip in with the goals from midfield. Able to run with it, play it simple and track down opposition, the Saints man could be exactly what Arsenal need to give their midfield a more bullish feel about its play when not in possession.

Lars Bender – A German midfielder who unfortunately missed out on the World Cup through injury has been widely regarded as one of the best young midfielders to come out of Germany. At 25-years-old, Bender is still young but has a wonderful array of qualities in his arsenal. Currently with Bayer Leverkusen, Bender is said to be a hit with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and would be an immediate target should the Khedira deal fall through. A player who would be cheaper than his international team mate, Bender possesses all the right qualities to be one of Germany’s top midfielders and where better to play than at Arsenal, a side who encourage positive football.

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Brand identity is composed of various shares that trigger particular responses in consumers in addition to filling the afore-mentioned functions. These shares build on one another; the more shares a brand has, the stronger and more positive the relationship with consumers.

At the very lowest level, mind share must be created in the consumer consciousness (cognitive level). This means that, as a complex perceptual and conceptual construct, the brand evokes an internal neural representation in the minds of consumers, leaving behind certain brand impressions.

This refers to the emotional relationship a consumer should develop with a brand. Heart share is less a matter of a product’s functional utility and more a matter of its symbolic attributes. The buyer of a Ferrari, for instance, will not develop an affection for the car based purely on functional attributes, but rather as a result of the values associated with the brand and the brand environment it operates in.

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Brand identity must trigger a buying intention share in consumers. After all, despite the importance of a brand’s mind and heart share, it only makes sense for a supplier to invest in brand identity if consumers will also want to buy the brand.

Brand identity contributes to self share, which means that the brand functions as a manifestation of the self, a tangible expression of self-image within the social environment. In this context, brands serve self-expression and self-design purposes, differentiating the individual within the social group. Brands can easily serve similar ends in the realm of business-to-business, where they bolster self-image in terms of a company and its functions.

Here, the brand shares in the existential search for meaning conducted by a consumer in a world enlightened to the point of meaning-lessness and takes on a virtually religious character. This aspect sheds light on the cultural-sociological proposition that brand management is worshiping the customer. Brands allow consumers to achieve social position or status, to partake of cultural expression, to create mythology and shape meaning, and as a result, to weave themselves into the social and metaphysical fabric of the world. In this context, a loyal customer is a member of a community and an individual loyal to that community not just a customer who makes repeat purchases. A brand is a tool for building a sense of community and belonging, for building the community itself.

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After putting her two cents in on Courteney Cox and David Arquette's split (saying "Courteney I never felt was a match. A Virgo and a Gemini is pretty much a rare commodity"), Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger is now offering up dating advice to another high profile Hollywood single lady -- 88-year-old Betty White.

Patti ponied up a list of potential suitors to Life & Style magazine. Our favorite choice for Betty? Eighty-four-year-old actor and comedian Mel Brooks.

"Betty and Mel would laugh all the way to heaven!" Patti told the magazine.

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Another viable option according to Patti is Bob Barker, also 84.

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The climate change discussion amongst policy makers and environmentalists long has centered on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions linked to rising global temperatures. Philanthropy followed their lead, placing big bets on mitigation efforts.

Hurricane Sandy changed the conversation. The most devastating storm in memory to hit coastal New York and New Jersey underscored the need to elevate nascent interest in climate change adaptation to the public policy center stage. In short, how can communities plan for and invest in infrastructure projects today to take into consideration the likely impacts of climate change in the future.

Infrastructure upgrades benefit everyone, but some projects take into consideration the special needs of disadvantaged populations—those who otherwise lack the resources needed to prepare and recover from climate change hazards. It’s within this context that philanthropy can play a powerful role in catalyzing and nurturing projects that adapt communities to inevitable climate change.

In The Bridgespan Group’s discussions with leaders of pioneering adaptation efforts, we’ve identified five investment models philanthropic funders can follow. In time, additional models may take shape, but these five reflect the current range of starting points that emerged from our research.

  • Support local science by local scientists: Local science can scale global issues to community circumstances and be more persuasive than work conducted by far-off experts.
  • Invest in neutral conveners: A credible and trusted convener can help reach across political and socioeconomic divides to bring diverse stakeholders to the table and keep them there.
  • Support community advocacy for change: Grassroots organizations that can mobilize local residents can help to set an agenda and build political will to overcome the status quo.
  • Build the field to share adaptation strategies: Building a field of practice around climate adaptation will accelerate the progress of local actors through shared knowledge and resources.
  • Re-frame the dialogue around people and social benefits: Climate has long been narrowly-construed as an environmental interest, but climate adaptation raises fundamental questions of fairness and equity for impacted communities. Philanthropy can help flip the debate from the polarizing politics of climate science to a productive discussion of resilience and reinvestment in our communities

These five philanthropic investment approaches provide a framework for action and offer opportunities for philanthropy to lead the way in protecting people and property in harm’s way of future catastrophes like Hurricane Sandy.

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Old English sheepdog, Old English sheepdog [Credit: © R.T. Willbie/Animal Photography]Old English sheepdog© R.T. Willbie/Animal Photographyshaggy working dog developed in early 18th-century England and used primarily in driving sheep and cattle to market. A compact dog with a shuffling, bearlike gait, the dog stands 21 to 26 inches (53 to 66 cm) and generally weighs over 55 pounds (25 kg). Its dense coat is weather-resistant and long enough to cover the eyes, though it does not obscure vision. The coat may be gray or blue-gray, with or without white markings. The dog is often called “bobtail” because its tail is usually removed soon after birth.

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