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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

You might like Pinker’s “Better Angels of our Nature” book.

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Doctrix Periwinkle's avatar

I have read it, and do like it very much. :)

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Adam Nathan's avatar

We probably share many things in common, but one of them is Footnote 3. That ad was a special ad and really made an impression me as a child. Briefly mentioned below. I include the link as proof, not as a reading assignment. :-) Besides, you have a scientist's regard for citation. Thank you for sharing your work with me.

https://www.adamnathan.com/p/threshold-i

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Doctrix Periwinkle's avatar

Thank you for reading! And I loved your 7-year-old’s impressions of Italy.

True story: a children’s choir sang “I’d like to teach the world to sing” for a local holiday event here last year, and while of course I cried, it was a real effort to not embarrassingly ugly cry. I can just hope that the seven-year-olds in the choir might have the same feeling when they’re 50.

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Adam Nathan's avatar

Some of them certainly will and you could probably have picked them out. We know our own.

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