(Part 2) Top products from r/Foodforthought
We found 20 product mentions on r/Foodforthought. We ranked the 183 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Sex at Dawn How We Mate Why We Stray and What It Means for Modern Relationships
22. A People's History of the United States
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
23. Ecologies of the Heart: Emotion, Belief, and the Environment
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
24. This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
25. Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
26. War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History, Revised and Updated
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
27. The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Classics
28. The Art of Happiness (Penguin Classics)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
29. Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Group USA
30. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
31. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
32. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
33. The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Theives, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
34. The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
36. Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD (Treatments That Work)
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Oxford University Press USA
37. Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
38. Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Great read if you're in high school and never been exposed to these ideas
E: I feel like people are taking this the wrong way. If you're young and have a cursory interest in philosophy, pieces like this are great to stoke that interest. If you are more intellectually mature, or are deeper in to philosophy, there are loads of pieces that better explore The Cave, and that better explore the philosophy stuff behind The Matrix. Great example is "Philosophers Explore The Matrix". It's a great shallow dive in to some of the concepts, and then you can find more material to dive deeper later.
For anyone who is interested in reading about the background of the relationship between The United States and Saudi Arabia, there is a great book called "Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia".
http://www.amazon.com/Thicker-Than-Oil-Americas-Partnership/dp/0195367057
Beyond oil, the United States has a lot riding on its close relationship with Saudi Arabia, particularly a common "adversary" in Iran, and it (Saudi Arabia) being a relatively stable regime in the Middle East. The book highlights the importance of Saudi Arabia's deeply religious state, which was important for the United States to support, as it was a means to oppose "Godless Communism" in the Soviet Union at the time (when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan). The author delves into why this (importance of religion in Saudi Arabia) is obviously less important now than it used to be (for the United States), and why the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia needs to be reassessed.
While it was difficult for me to pick up on what might actually be hidden in those 28 pages, it sounds as though it may be strong evidence which would implicate Saudi Arabia in the attacks, even more than they already have been. Perhaps it was not worth it to the United States government to reveal information that would harm relations with a government whom they've long needed the support from, especially given our long-running tensions with Iran.
It depends on how "traditional" you want to go. China has been around for thousands of years and Chinese traditional medicine, likewise. The answer is that Western culture as a whole has a lot to learn from traditional cultures especially when it comes to indigenous wildlife and their uses and environmental functions. There's an entire field of study about traditional knowledge and it's fascinating.
Of course, what we can learn about medicine from these cultures won't be found in acupuncture or homeopathy most likely. Instead, it would be found by carefully sifting through all the knowledge built up by these cultures about the local wildlife with a specific focus on plants and their uses.
The good news is that these indigenous peoples are usually far more aware of local plants and their uses than scientists who come and visit. The bad news is that they necessarily have to pass their knowledge from generation to generation through stories, songs, legends, dances, myths, rituals, and constant passing of information through instruction. Combine that with a lack of rigorous scientific understanding and you have a terrible disconnect between native peoples and any researchers who come to study them and their environment.
There is huge, hidden value locked away in indigenous societies and it's really easy to forget about because people don't think these cultures have anything important to offer scientifically when they really just don't know how. There's a great book called Ecologies of the Heart by E. N. Anderson. It's truly an eye-opener and has two chapters dedicated to feng-shui (which was originally used to evaluate a plot of land and where to place various buildings and features on it) and Chinese nutritional therapy. For a very long time Asia thought little of surgery (as opposed to Europe which loved cutting people open very early) and focused much more on diet as a means to heal.
Let us go with your argument and see where we reach ...
First, this resolution never gave Israel the right to kick Palestinian from their land. The independence of Israel never meant not giving citizenship status to the original Palestinians living in their land. Actually, [UN resolution 194] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_194) gives them the right to return back. The right that they were never given by Israel at any time since its creation. But you know what, let us assume that those Palestinians who were kicked out "according to UN resolution 181" deserve the suffering and yes it was hard to loose your land and home but this is UN whenever they decide something in New York, everyone should follow it.
You talk about UN resolutions as Israel respect any of them! According to the same UN, Israel should not be in the West Bank [UN resolution 242] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_242) and call it an OCCUPATION. I do not see why resisting an occupation is something questionable. Of course, there are other resolutions that you may like to read, you can look [UN resolution 3236] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_3236).
It is easy to blame each other for things happened in 1947 or 1948. But if we are serious about finding a solution, we need to accept that occupation still exists and all nations on Earth has the right to live freely.
You may never agree with me, but I suggest you read War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History which is a book written by an Israeli historian Avi Shlaim who is a professor at Oxford.
I find both parties politically incorrect, however, occupying millions of people on a historical pretext of promised land and killing thousands of civilians every time your government has a political game is not really the way for humanity to advance in the 21st century.
I made a post in /r/Stoicism a while ago when someone asked about books for Epicureanism. I'll just repost it here:
The influences of Epicurus spread through much of the writings of other philosophers and major historical figures. Prominent examples include Isaac Newton, Karl Marx, and Thomas Jefferson. In fact, the pursuit of happiness part from Jefferson's Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness was likely heavily influenced by Epicurus.
Anyway, here's some reading material since /r/Epicurus is a barren wasteland where everyone seems to just downvote none stop:
And some extra stuff that might be worth checking out:
Here's how I like to think of it: In Tibetan Buddhism there are two types of Bodhisattvas, the capital "B"-Bodhisattvas which have ascended to god-like status, and the lower-case "b"-bodhisattvas who I think of as ordinary people who do good works or teach others valuable life lessons. I cannot speak to the existence or lack there of existence of Bodhiattvas, any more than I can to the actions of angels on earth. But I can say that the world is full of small-b bodhisattvas. And the community of people who came together to help bring her body back to America (I wrote about them a little in my first book http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Market-Brokers-Traffickers/dp/0061936464) taught me a lot about what it means to be a member of society and the value of life and death.
I think Emily was delusional because even if she had achieved some sort of spiritual ascendance, her action caused great pain to her family and friends. By being so caught up in her own personal quest, she forgot her position in society.
I can't do fancy links, but have fun. Enjoy having managers put new wines on the menu, and you show up and are just expected to know about them, when they could come from anywhere in the world (and what about a nose and palette for wine, liquor, beer and food, and how to pair them all together) If you don't think what I need to learn is complicated, why should I think what you need to learn is complicated?:
http://www.amazon.com/Wine-Bible-Karen-MacNeil/dp/1563054345/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372030268&sr=1-1&keywords=the+wine+bible
http://www.amazon.com/Wine-Grapes-Complete-Varieties-Including/dp/0062206362/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372030321&sr=1-8&keywords=wine+books
Here's a great book about what could be the true value and nature of shop class.
What did the 70s leftists accomplish? From everything I read, they failed, went back to their rich parents and got handed cushy jobs.
Here is a good book on the subject:
https://www.amazon.ca/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revolutionary/dp/0143107976/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512061735&sr=8-1&keywords=days+of+rage
>Won't this just cause the "developing" countries to sink further into poverty?
A lot of these workers remit money home to the developing world; remittances sometimes/often outweigh foreign aid. Evidence from modern day skilled migration suggests that migration is a lot more complex phenomenon than we take it for. The UK for example seemed to be facing a rising tide of Polish immigration, but concurrent rising living standards in Poland have drawn back a lot of Polish emigres, who are now going back home. Likewise, a lot of people from China, Taiwan and India in the US decide to go home after some years or decades in the US.
Clemens mentions in this talk some work by economic historians like Hatton and Williamson -- if you have access to a university network or live in a developing country, you can access their research which indicates mass migration ultimately leads to benefits for both the country of emigration and immigration: http://www.nber.org/papers/h0041.pdf and http://www.nber.org/papers/w5259.pdf They also have a book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Age-Mass-Migration-Causes-Economic/dp/0195116518
As they say, history book are written by the winners.
If you want to see more of the ugly parts of (the US) history that the books left out, I suggest A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
They are vague because you are just reading the titles. They are all 2-3 page essays, and are collected annually and published as a book. Recommended reading, especially last year's question: What is a Concept to Enhance Your Cognitive Toolkit
>Hitler's governance and focus on the development of the country is what did not leave Germany handicapped after WWII.
um, what? Hitler ran the german economy into the ground.
I have no idea how it is, as I haven't read it yet, but the bookstore I work in carries this.
This isn't really a very good example.
In the book, "The Poison Paradox", the author points out that the huge toxicity of dioxin is a belief founded upon the effects of dioxin in animals.
Although it is a really nasty chemical, there hasn't really been much evidence of it being highly toxic in humans, other than the symptoms such as chloracne.
So, as a toxic waste story, Love Canal is a bit of a fizzer.
There are much better ones around, such as Erin Brockovich's Hexavalent Chromium
I have to say, as a former military mental health technician of six years, having worked extensively with both Active Duty Army and Air Force populations...
> It’s because the vast majority of us are straight up sociopaths.
This simply is not true.
Additionally,
>only roughly 20% of combat troops ever get PTSD – when if you think about it, it should affect everyone that ever sees combat
This isn't how PTS works. (source) What I think he's doing is confusing PTS with Acute Stress Disorder or Decompression.
I can admit that I might be personalizing this a little bit, but it really bothers me when military members are misrepresented in this way. Are there some sociopaths? Yes, absolutely. But they are not a "majority", just like they aren't a majority in the civilian world. People seem to forget sometimes that the military is just a small percentage of the civilian population, with mental health numbers that are often comparable to civilian numbers, as far as incidence goes. While it's true that the incidence of PTS is higher, that is, of course, the nature of the work. Suicide numbers have been higher in the past, as well, but it's not fair to associate all suicides with sociopaths.
EDIT: links
Some of the problems I have with this article:
The concerns in this article are pretty much bullshit. If people are interested in the subject, Oxford Press commissioned an informative book entitled Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know.