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  How Long Do Cats Remember? 10 Key Scientific Findings

  catanddoghouse.com - Susan Nilson

  Quick Answer Some of the top-ranking articles on Google will tell you that cats’ short-term memory lasts about 16 hours. When I investigated, that …

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  Living With Grief: What to Do When You’re Faced With the Impossible

  mindful.org - By Elaine Smookler

  Whether you like it or not, people and things you love will end. Here are some ways you can prepare for what you cannot bear. Are those rats I hear in …

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  We've Finally Seen in Exquisite Detail How Human Fingers And Toes Grow

  ScienceAlert - Clare Watson

  Embargoed until: 0300 AEDT Thu 7 Dec Human fingers and toes don't grow outward as you might expect. Instead, our dexterous digits are 'sculpted' …

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  The 10 Strangest Philosophical Theories

  worldatlas.com - Megan Deak

  When you think of famous philosophical theories, Descartes and his Theory of Innate Ideas or the ideas of Ethical Egoism (that morality aligns with …

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  Poetic Ecology and the Biology of Wonder

  The Marginalian - Maria Popova

  “Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature,” philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote in her landmark treatise on the intelligence of emotions, “they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.” Two decades later, this …

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  The untapped power of loneliness

  Fast Company - By Next Big Idea Club

  Loneliness is a drive to overcome this persistent feeling of separateness. This does not mean that we are doomed by it. Richard Deming is an award-winning poet and critic. He is the creative writing director at Yale University. He contributes to such magazines as Artforum, Sight & Sound, and The Boston …