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Responding to the tragedy of Sept. 11, Mayor Giuliani is in his finest hour; from there, its a slow descent to irrelevance by way of a failed 2008...

Max Planck Institute researchers have identified hundreds of neuron types in reptiles and mammals, shared and unique, spread all across both brain types.

"There is a lizard brain in this country. Donald Trump is a product of the White man’s, the anguished, nervous White guy’s lizard brain.”

>> absolutely. psychic numbing as we call it, or compassion fatigue, implies that we are so overloaded by living in a state of constant threat. our brains were not evolved to handle this. we have circumscribed threat, where we have one situation and our brain needs to wrap around, how can i do, how do i mobilize resources. but we are not meant to be living in conflict for the last two years because of the pandemic, war, inflation, gun shootings as you mentioned that have been going on for decade...

Because people are behaving a radically, and violently, as a result of being in lizard brain, for lack of a better term? >> yes, so reptilian brain is referring to are more primitive brain functions. but our core text, which is responsible for executive functioning, planning, strategizing. abstract thinking, language. a lot of really wonderful things. memory, concentration, and all of that is being compromised. our sense of self, our well-being, our san collateral safety is being compromised. wh...

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Rate differs systematically by income. lower income people face higher inflation rates in this pandemic than higher income people dead. we have to take it into account it is exactly about wage growth income distribution. we should also be measuring about why is -- >> i think this is a remarkably interesting conversation which i will bring graphics to the next time we talk about. we have it in our minds, in the back of our lizard brain, that inflation is going to hide too fast and a bad thing. th...

Whats happening to price growth across the income distribution. >> i think this is remarkably interesting conversation that can benefit from some graphics, which i will bring the next time we talk about it. lets talk about how you fight inflation. weve generally got in our minds in the back of our brain, in our lizard brain that inflation -- inflation going too high too fast is a bad thing. there are methods to fight -- to slow down an economy and that includes raising interest rates, which the ...

Are we overly led by data, boring analytics and impassive AI? Do we live in a world where hunch, gut feel, and instinct are relics of the past? This head-to-head debate pits DRPG’s creative director Tommy Joe Moore against strategic planner Melanie Palmer.

Necessarily perverse, that they will necessarily go to the place that were seeing all these revelations about, like outrage and conspiracy theory and qanon and all that stuff because that is -- there is something deep in us that is what grabs our attention. >> exactly right. thats why we shouldnt be surprised by any of this. the real question is what is survivable for our society. i think we said this two weeks ago when we spoke. so long as the business model is we are the product and not the cu...