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We survived the African savannas, despite being weaker and slower than our predators and most of our prey, by an amazing ability to engage in mutual aid, and that urge to cooperate has been hardwired into our minds through natural selection.

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Galvani's approach of probing the nervous system with electrodes has remained state-of-the-art until today, despite a number of drawbacks.

Despite centuries of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.

And, despite being cursed with my athletic inability, he plays soccer.

We are missing the story of Fareeda, a music teacher, a piano teacher, in Sarajevo, who made sure that she kept the music school open every single day in the four years of besiege in Sarajevo and walked to that school, despite the snipers shooting at that school and at her, and kept the piano, the violin, the cello playing the whole duration of the war, with students wearing their gloves and hats and coats.

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