ak39in Hacker News • Recommends
On “No Time to Be Nice at Work”
That is so true. Primates, not just apes. Here's Sapolsky explaining how stress in an hierarchical social arrangement impacts heart health and life expectancy. link to this video
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Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)
TheSymposionNights
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- Recommended by 2 people, in Hacker News, across 2 different months.
- Presented by Dr. Robert Sapolsky, as the video describes them
- May be out of date. Uploaded 14 years ago, in an area where guidance changes.
For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.
322K views14 years ago2 recommendations
Mental healthHeart and metabolismStressHeart disease
Robert Sapolsky explains how social hierarchies create chronic stress that negatively impacts cardiovascular health and life expectancy.
Scenes from the Symposion Nights: In the Symposion Nights we invite participants to share their ideas about reality and, at the same time, practise critical thinking. Every Symposion we discuss a specific theme with the help of selected fragments of documentaries. 'Thoughts' are stimulated with the help of wine. The Symposion Nights are organised at the University of Amsterdam. For further info check: cmplx.org/events-2/symposia/Why it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a compelling explanation of the biological and psychological impacts of social hierarchy and chronic stress.
Litostin Hacker News • Recommends
On “Chronic stress spreads cancer”
The full length video of his is definitely worth a watch, but if anyone's short on time, there's quite a good much shorter version focussing more on the hierarchy/alpha male side of it - link to this video
leto_iiin Hacker News • Mentions
On “Whales in 19th century shared information about ship attacks”
> Read Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene" I have, I don't fully agree with Dawkins. I'm not a biologist, merely a dilettante, but I can point to source 1 for some counter-arguments. First, there's a difference between the biological and the common use of the term 'altruism': > This biological notion of altruism is not identical to the everyday concept. In everyday parlance, an action would only be called ‘altruistic’ if it was done with the conscious intention of helping another. But in the biological sense there is no such requirement. Indeed, some of the most interesting examples of biological altruism are found among creatures that are (presumably) not capable of conscious thought at a…