from the monkey to the homoEmpathicus

Some weeks ago i came across with the knowledge that we posses some neurons call mirror system-or mirror neurons- wich give us the ability to feel what others are felling, just by see them or by hear them. Well this system is the base of the empathy, but empathy may be the base of another big thing...Society perhaps? but how study empathy can give us insights of how society evolve? -here it gets really good- because studying empathy we can study the history of human social counsiousness or to whom we think -and fell- we are related to. From the blood ties, passing through religion to Nations states and going further, Jeremy Rifkin explain the ideas coming from his six years research on this topic. This video extract, and illustrate in the very clear way of CongnitiveMedia, a part of a talk given by the autor on which he refers to the discovery of the mirror system and how that new insight open a new path for understand history, pass and future.

A virtual view of Haiti's earthquake

I Have found a very powerfull tool to realize the scale of the devastation after the last big earthquake ocurred the afternoon of the Tuesday 12th of January in Haiti. This map provides information in several layers, including one that shows a detailed damage assessment.

(bing maps may be required)

http://www.virtualdisasterviewer.com/vdv/index.php?selectedEventId=7

The view from the ground

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