www.ted.com Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share.TEDTalks ...
Human morality is older than our current religions, and may go back to tendencies observable in other mammals. In a bottom-up view of morality, this talk is one man's road to discovering an array of positive tendencies in animals at a time when competition and aggression were the only themes. In ...
Biologist Frans de Waal presents an argument for empathy in a world focused on competition in The Age of Empathy. www.booklounge.ca
The River Waal is the main tributary, branch of the river Rhine, flowing to the central Netherlands for about 80 km (50 miles), before joining the Meuse near Woudrichem to form the Boven Merwede. The river carries 65% of the total flow of the Rhine. It is a major river which serves as the main wa...
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imag...
Edmund de Waal Speech at Palais Ephrussi, Vienna, Austria October 20, 2011
