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How odd that I have just finished watching a Nicholas Humphrey video from
the BMW Guggenheim Lab series called "The Nature of the City - Lessons from
Evolutionary Science."

In it, he cites a study that when people were @ 100 ft of a funeral home
(whether they were conscious of it or not) would become less tolerant and
less generous:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxI-yoVp4Rw

On that note... Happy New Year? ; )

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/31/256596253/nothing-focuses-the-mind-like-the-ultimate-deadline-death
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> A very cool story.  I don't know about the product, but I was
particularly taken with the researchers point of view and death's intimate
relationship with xenophobia.  Birth and death are the ultimate shared
experiences and we have close to zero reports from either, and both are the
subject of lots of magically speculation.  How appropriate for the turning
of year.
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