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Lee Keyes
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Retired psychologist, enjoys ⚾ and 🎵. Student of Scots-Irish history. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇺🇲
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Our deep ancestry may explain why we are attracted to and also deny pain and fear.

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Our Paleolithic Feelings
How we acquired a dysfunctional relationship to fear and pain.
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Dolly & Keanu 2028
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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📣 Action Alert: The Office of Public Witness is urging the public to mobilize against federal legislation that would “place a price on human liberty” and roll back criminal justice reforms in Washington, D.C. Learn more: pcusa.org/news-storyte...
#PCUSA #Advocacy
December 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I don't intend to diminish anyone.

But since the 🤡 said he loves dumb people, we should know that half of all people have an IQ below 100. 84% below 115. And they vote. And he knows this.

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The five universal laws of human stupidity
In 1976, a professor of economic history published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat
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December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This would be a major development in the understanding of ancient Celts.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Totally anecdotal from my experience but of every ten who thought they had ADHD I'd say two actually did.

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Learning about the "nocebo effect" prevents false ADHD self-diagnosis, study shows
A new study suggests that ADHD awareness campaigns can lead healthy young adults to falsely self-diagnose. However, researchers found that a brief educational intervention about the "nocebo effect" ef...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Camp Thomas Paine was a Squatters Colony, a "Hooverville" shantytown, in New York City during the Great Depression located in Riverside Park of Manhattan along the Hudson River. This camp was specifically for World War I veterans and was photographed by Percy Loomis Sperr.
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
There was a time when high schools showed segments of film like this. Every school in America should do so now. And also read Common Sense by Thomas Paine.

In short, we've been here before.

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The American Revolution - Ken Burns
The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It i...
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December 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Incorporating emotion into the history of humans.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
You Had to Be There
An emerging field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"The spirit of the people is unconquerable." ~Mercy Otis Warren, referring to Americans during the Revolutionary War
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Whoever invented pet parties understood that watching animals be happy is literally the best serotonin boost money can buy
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM