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I highly recommend this book that may help you answer this question and raise a lot of good new ones https://www.amazon.com/Homo-Deus-Brief-History-Tomorrow/dp/0062464345/

It's a look at what our future may look like and it sounds like you might get a lot of good insight out of it. Cheers!

The Genius of Dogs by Brian Hare is an excellent book that will explain this in detail.

The tl:dr version is dogs have been with man as a domesticated animal used for hunting far longer than any other animal. This refinement of hunting instinct has over time lead to a more intelligent dog. So intelligent in fact that Hare argues dogs are far smarter than any other animal.

I'd recommend two books:

1. Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court; and
   
2. A History of the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz.
   
   The Schwartz book is particularly good for a history of the development of the Court and its jurisprudence. It may not cover 100 decisions but you get good in-depth treatment of probably 20 or so of the big ones.

The top answer hits the basic point.

However, I'd like to address one aspect of human evolution: language. Some AI and HI academics posit that humans' language is what separates us from other animals. That is, our ability to symbolically form and manipulate language is absolute and unique from all other species. Furthermore, Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick posit that the anatomical change that physically allowed us to form our capabilities for symbolic language is merge. They believe that a physical bundle of nerves/fibers completed a "loop" in the human brain that enabled us to recursively do "merge" operations on ideas, thoughts, and symbols in general.

I'll link sources when I get home.

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Here is a good, short paper to read. It mentions Chomsky and Berwick and their new book, Why Only Us. It talks about how they believe that (1) language is unique to humans, and (2) "Merge" enables language (among other interesting opinions they hold).

I'll also link the book here, though of course you have to buy it to read it, and I don't feel comfortable trying to find a PDF of it: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Only-Us-Language-Evolution/dp/0262034247

Talmud is a lot less interesting than Kabbalah though. It's mostly laws and the Rabbi's reasoning for how best to carry out those Jewish laws and why that is. Also reading it can get confusing because there are A TON of rants throughout conversations because one thing leads to another before they finally come back full circle to finish what they were talking about. Don't get me wrong, it's interesting but just very different from Kaballah.

The only thing is the Jewish mysticism isn't that accessible. If you could find a good, accessible book on it though then you'd be golden.

Maybe start your research here and see what else comes up through your exploring. Also obviously look into The Zohar - the number one book on Jewish mysticism.

> And they have a similar entry list for vehicles. I think it's actually easier for them to track vehicles than people.

There's a bit in Don't get taken for a ride every time where a car dealership scans customer's license plates as they arrive. Since they're owned by a conglomerate who also owns one of the credit rating bureaus and an insurance agency, they are legally able to pair license plates with credit ratings for additional leverage in the finance negotiations.

[This book](https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Elaine-Rich/dp/0070522634
) gives a good introduction. You may laugh that it's from 1990, but AI was not even particularly new back then.

This book was one of the cornerstones of my degree early years, but it takes you from basic concepts so you should be OK understanding the concepts in it.

You should take a look at The People's History of the United States. It's very broad and isn't always able to hunker down for a long time on one subject but it gives you a lot of starting points to jump off from and you can use that to dig deep and do your own research. It is very good to be suspicious because society has become too comfortable.

If you look at the history of the U.S there is an amazing amount of political work done by people when they don't vote. They get together and bring cities to standstill, etc. It doesn't have to be violent though sometimes I believe it is necessary. Yet now we have to "legally" protest which is a bunch of bullshit in my opinion. It pretty much defeats the purpose if I have to stand around in a designated protest area while nothing gets done around me.

Yes, that is exactly my point and it isn't a new tactic either. War is often used to gain mass support while glossing over the problems at home. It provides people with something else to fight rather than the system in which they live. I mean look at Afghanistan and Iraq. Every day people are coming under increased surveillance. Even the democratic president, Obama, continues to use his predecessors policies. Why? Because there are only two choices in a two party system. He hardly has to please his own base, just keep them hanging by a hairline because they don't want to go the other way and vote republican.

Edit: I don't advocate not voting. I'm Canadian and do. Though I support anti capitalist movements and if push comes to shove will stand with them.

It may seem unrelated, but this book may give you some insight. It explains how Sherlock Holmes levels of awareness are not as hard to achieve as most think. My thought in recommending it is that you do not need to think so quick on your feet if you can more effectively anticipate what will happen.

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

Some (like CCA and GEO) are public companies. You can research their cash monies and numbers here or here. There are also all kinds of scholarly readings on the subject (like The Culture of Control)...or pretty much anything by David Garland really...

SURPRISE:

Eyes wide to see better. Mouth open to breath better in case of emergency physical action.

Touching the mouth is what's referred to an "adapter" or "pacifying behavior", an action that serves to calm us down after a negative or traumatizing experience.

The mouth and neck are two of the most touched areas during these types of behavior.

Source? This awesome book written by an FBI interviewer who watches for these behaviors during questioning to see what line of questioning is making the subject uncomfortable.

Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know Instructions for Life From the Everyday to the Exotic

High testosterone is common in women who are LGBT, bipolar, have polycystic ovary syndrome, or congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

Source: this book.

Mercer Mayer books? There's A Nightmare in My Closet

https://www.amazon.com/Theres-Nightmare-Closet-Mercer-Mayer/dp/0140547126

Indoor bug zappers work great on fruit flies. They don't make an audible "zap" like the outdoor traps.

I have had luck with mangling a soda bottle into a crude trap and baiting it with cider vinegar, but I can't recommend it. It's really more of a mess than it is worth.

stop everything and read this book. it explains a lot about origins and sources. it might even change your beliefs. ultimately they believe ezra edited the bible and made it somewhat what it is today.

I found this.

> Aesop probably lived in the middle part of the sixth century BC. A statement in Herodotus gives ground for thinking that he was a slave belonging to a citizen of Samos called Iadmon. Legend says that he was ugly and misshapen. There are many references to Aesop found in the Athenian writers: Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle and others. It is not known whether he wrote down his Fables himself, nor indeed how many of them are correctly attributed to his invention.

Freakonomics says the dominant factor for the drop in crime was abortion legalization.

Many of those responsible for the worst of the Nazi's atrocities, such as mass killings of Jews in Poland and Russia (e.g. rounding up all of the Jews men, women, and children in a particular Polish town ~3000 in all and shooting them), were members of reserve German police and could be considered "normal" citizens not really politically affiliated with the Nazi party. Many (not all) were from humble backgrounds, young, not very educated, not very wealthy and did regular police work until the Nazi party/Himmler reconfigured such reserves into death squad-like battalions carrying out extermination efforts.

The author of this one book I recently read went through hundreds of firsthand accounts from such complicit men to see how everyday Germans could possibly be swept into committing such horrible war crimes. As an Amazon review says, some factors included "cowardice, ideological indoctrination, loyalty to the battalion, and reluctance to force the others to bear more than their share of what each viewed as an excruciating duty." In one particular passage I remember, members of one of these death squad battalions were told that participation in another one of these mass murders was not mandatory, was not forced, and the Germans were allowed to take some rest if they were not up to it this time around. Though like the quote above says, many of those who decided reluctantly to continue did so not because they were particularly geared up to do so out of faithfulness to the Nazi racial ideology or what have you, but because it was their duty within their battalion. Often on nights after having carried out such missions, commanders would allow/encourage draftees into drinking a lot to "forget."

Still, for me too, it's difficult to see from a modern point of view, just how almost an entire society could have sunken into savagery under Hitler. In the end, the implementation of the Final Solution rested on the complicity of the individual in playing their part and its difficult to say exactly why each person went along with it.