One tool to help enhance human cognition requires years of childhood training.
It's quite the investment to apply universally but it pays off. It enhances human memory, ability to reason, absorb information, ability to calculate and do accounting, it also helps with communication. It makes more complex societies possible. It also enhances entertainment.
This tool integrates a primarily auditory symbol system with a visual one.
It's called reading and writing.
@PNS That dude has really low testosterone. If ever any of us were uncertain about being on the right path, listening to weirdos like this one, leaves no doubt that we should hold fast.
@waltercool looks like a fucking Jamaican.
@hula Well since zippers are a recent, relatively modern invention, it would seem that the Scots have been sneaking up on sheep for millennia.
TIL human sweat is the most extreme and distinctively human evolutionary trait as a whole.
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/sweat-glands-evolution/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1dsweee/til_human_sweat_is_the_most_extreme_and/
@watchingmyanmar The west nor the western media mockingbirds don't care about Myanmar. To them, Myanmar is just another weapon to use, to destabilize China.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.”