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Overcoming Your Demons Life Pick of the day

Morgan Housel | Collaborative Fund | 1st September 2017

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On living with a stutter. “When I stutter, I can’t even say the word in my head, let alone with my mouth. I can see the word in my mind, and I know what the word means, but all auditory associations vanish. I know what a word is supposed to sound like, but the mental processing seizes up. Stuttering is usually viewed through the lens of someone having trouble speaking, but it’s the stuttering in your head that’s most frustrating. There are words – sounds, really – that get denied at the source” (2,600 words)

There’s No Such Thing As A Good Dog Life

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There are no good or bad dogs, only good or bad owners. Good owners are the ones who put in the work — including plenty of exercise; an exhausted dog is a happy dog. “People love to tell me how lucky I am to have a good dog like Wiley. But they’re dead wrong — there was no luck involved. Wiley’s good behavior and good temperament are products of four years of hard work, nothing else. The more people who understand this, the more people there will be who have ‘good’ dogs too” (2,200 words)

Deeper Than Deep Science

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In his lab at Harvard Medical School, geneticist David Reich reconstructs the emergence of modern humans by analysing ancient and inherited DNA. “This is deep, deep history, from tens of thousands of years ago, when vast tribes of variations of hominids — Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans, mysterious ‘ghost populations’ — ranged, thronged, clashed, bred, interbred and probably exterminated large portions of each other across vast landscapes that were battlefields and graveyards” (4,900 words)

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