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Continue reading →: The Global Journey of Coffee: From Arab Beginnings to American Coffee CultureArabs began to brew coffee six hundred years ago, and the first European coffee shop opened its doors in Oxford, England, in 1652 when Isaac Newton was ten years old. The cause of the Enlightenment may have been the Copernican revolution and the Protestant Reformation, but coffee was its daily…
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Continue reading →: Karma: The Self-Made Path to Suffering and FreedomKarma is one of the only few concepts in the world that addresses human perplexity in the face of suffering. It is the only logic that explains the seeming arbitrariness of the world we live in. Karma has nothing to do with reward and punishment. Karma is about becoming the…
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Continue reading →: The Illusion of Free Will: Examining Autonomy, Responsibility, and Human AgencyThe question of free will touches nearly everything we care about. Morality, law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, feelings of guilt and personal accomplishment- -most of what is distinctly human about our lives seems to depend upon our viewing one another as autonomous persons, capable of free choice. If…
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Continue reading →: Howard Schultz and the Birth of Starbucks: Revolutionizing Coffee CultureIn 1983, Howard Schultz noticed an anomaly and from that insight a fascinating new business was eventually born. At that time, Schultz was the marketing and retail operations manager for a tiny chain of Seattle stores selling dark-roasted coffee beans. On a visit to Italy, Schultz discovered the Italian espresso…
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Continue reading →: The Digital Age: Freedom, Expression, and the Challenges of Our Global CityWe are all neighbors now. There are more phones than there are human beings and close to half of humankind has access to the internet!’ In our cities, we rub shoulders with strangers from every country, culture and faith. The world is not a global village but a global city,…
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Continue reading →: The Divide of Belief and Identity: Groupthink, Moral Superiority, and the Crisis of Balance in Modern SocietyWherever we look, there is scarcely a single country, society or continent which is not wracked by strains, stresses and divisions which even a decade ago would have been hard to imagine. A group of people comes to be fixated on some belief or view of the world which seems…
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Continue reading →: Consciousness, Energy, and the Laws of Entropy: Rethinking Life's Fundamental ProcessesNurtured by a selfish bias which prompts us to overvalue conscious phenomena, we have overlooked the role of non-conscious energy for a reason that might be attributed to its spontaneous ingress into biological activism. The concept of consciousness is no longer too veridical to unequivocally be an exclusive co-relate of…
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Continue reading →: The Dual Nature of Human Behavior: Exploring Transactions, the Parent, and the ChildThroughout history one impression of human nature has been consistent: that man has a multiple nature. Most often it has been expressed as a dual nature. It has been expressed mythologically, philosophically, and religiously. Always it has been seen as a conflict: the conflict between good and evil, the lower…
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Continue reading →: The Multifaceted Nature of Creativity and Its Psychological FoundationsCreativity can’t be defined in one way but can be expressed differently. Creativity involves making things but it also involve mashing up ideas in different ways, it can mean thinking differently about data and finding unique solutions to varied practical problems, it can mean hacking system and tuning in different…
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Continue reading →: The IKEA Effect : Why Building Your Own Furniture (or Anything) Makes You Love It MorePride of creation and ownership runs deep in human beings. When we make a meal from scratch or build a bookshelf, we smile and say to ourselves, “I am so proud of what I just made!” Local Motors, Inc., a more manly company, takes the IKEA theory even further. The…
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