Monday, May 21, 2007

Testosterone



It is all about control, excessive testosterone develops a greater need for control over your environment ie. you have a greater competitive attitude to all elements with in your environment, human and otherwise. Angry faces are there because you are creating them, forcing a change in the emotions of others around you and specifically forcing them to adopt negative unhealthy emotions and stealing away their ability to control their mental state ie. challenging them and winning.

...but isn't this classic Alpha behavior? Do the psychologists even study chimps and gorillas any more? If your underling (or a potential threat to your rule) only briefly shows an anger face but not long enough to be perceived as a threat, that means you 'won' the confrontation and have established your superiority in the heirarchy. Of course, with chimps it's actually the ones that stay on the fringes and avoid the Alpha (we'll call them Chimp Geeks) that have the most sex with the females, as the Alpha & underlings are too busy and stressed about staying on the top o' the heap...

http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/05/15/2026249.shtml




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2007 LA Times Festival of Books

Great coverage by CSPAN2 of the 2007 LA Times Festival of Books...

State of the Union Panel

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Description: From a LA Times Festival of Books, a panel on domestic politics and U.S. foreign policy featuring: Amy Goodman ("Static"), Douglas Kmiec ("The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution"), Greg Palast ("Armed Madhouse"), and Doug Wilson ("Getting America Right"). The discussion is moderated by Larry Mantle.

http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=8267&schedID=488


Age of Spin Panel

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Description: From the LA Times Festival of Books, a panel on political spin featuring: Frank Luntz ("Words That Work"), Joe Conason ("It Can Happen Here"), David Goodman ("Static"), and Michael Isikoff ("Hubris"). The panel is moderated by John Powers.

http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=8265&schedID=488


Panel Discussion on Religion: The Politics of Faith

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  • Reza Aslan, "No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam"
  • Chris Hedges, "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America"
  • Jack Miles, "Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God & God: A Biography"
  • Moderator: Jonathan Kirsch

Panel Discussion on Divided We Stand:
Facing Tough Issues

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  • Douglas Brinkley, "The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast"
  • Edward Humes, "Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul"
  • Eyal Press, "Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America"
  • Krista Tippett, "Speaking of Faith"
  • Moderator: Matt Miller

Panel Discussion on Current Interest:
Profiles in Terror

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  • Jeffrey Goldberg, "Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide"
  • Brian Michael Jenkins, "Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves"
  • Terry McDermott, "The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It"
  • Lawrence Wright, "The Looming Tower"
  • Moderator: Leo Braudy

Panel Discussion on Biography: 20th
Century Lives

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  • Anthony Arthur, "Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair"
  • Neal Gabler, "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination"
  • Walter Isaacson, "Einstein: His Life and Universe"
  • Harold Zellman, "The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship"
  • Moderator: A. Scott Berg

LIVE Religion & Culture Panel

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Description: Book TV presents LIVE coverage of the LA Times Festival of Books. At 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT, a panel on the mixing of religion and culture featuring: Christopher Hitchens ("God Is Not Great"), Zachary Karabell ("Peace Be upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence"), and Jonathan Kirsch ("A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization"). The panel is moderated by Thane Rosenbaum.


LIVE Iraq Panel

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Description: Book TV presents LIVE coverage
of the LA Times Festival of Books. At 5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT, a panel on the Iraq
War featuring: William Langewiesche ("The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear
Poor"), T. Christian Miller ("Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and
Corporate Greed in Iraq"), Robert Scheer ("Playing President: My Relationships
with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare
Me for George W. Bush" & "The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq").
The panel is moderated by Nancy Snow.


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