Defining Trait

We used to think it was our ability to use tools or the elegance of our reasoning or the architecture of opposable thumbs or brain size.
Maybe we need a new criteria to define our intelligence and what makes it distinct from other species on our planet.

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MONKEYS SHINED

MONKEYS SHINED          The keyboard monkeys, ad infinitum, may randomly type out a Shakespeare play, but publishing monkeys may well spite ‘em, printing only the pap that sells today.          The chance of brilliance, vanishingly small, is filtered through some monkey business sense and may never make the bookshelves at all — some monkeys see […]

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Hear Here

HEAR HERE     Hammer, anvil, stirrup and drum echo vibrations in the Eustachian cave — down into its enclosed cochlear chamber — where wave modulations are measured for interpretation by the brain, giving meaning and music to the chaos of sound. I remember hearing a story of a king’s satorical conversion while contemplating his […]

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