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• A comment on Talk: Michael Norton: How to buy happiness

  May 1 2012: What happens if you vary the amount people get for being prosocial?
  
  It would be an even stronger result if people are still happier spending it prosocially than for private use if the amount they get for both uses is exactly the same. Would be important to make sure people are not simply happy because they clearly made more out of the donation.
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  A comment on Talk: Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals

  Apr 14 2012: Most impressively, the capuchin not only became aggressive against non-fair treatment getting no grapes but also was able to judge (!) neither he nor his stone can be made responsible for it: I interpret his stone testing against the wall as his perfect measure of whether his stone is of broken value.

• A reply on Talk: John Hunter: Teaching with the World Peace Game

  Sep 6 2011: To top it: Even if you consider the tasks of the game as oversimplified, the role they are playing are self-created by the children. They act as they see their world (and I doubt that it matters much which world, the game's world or our real one, to build up values, character traits or problem solving competences).

• A comment on Talk: Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes

  Dec 15 2010: Perhaps understressed so far: I guess she is vocated to teach - not only because she really loves her students but also because she takes them (and their sorrows) serious, something we need - also as students.

• A comment on Talk: Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes

  Dec 15 2010: Excellent! And yet, please allow me, a word of caution: As it is indeed so important to encourage to learn from mistakes, make learning a progress, I think the first step is to make sure the students are confident. They need to feel safe that the teacher (or better: life) will provide a second opportunity to perform better next time. Otherwise mistakes remain discouraging and harm self-confidence.

• A comment on Talk: Joseph Nye on global power shifts

  Nov 12 2010: I am concerned about what he said about being feared:
  1) I cannot bring along using power and cooperative behavior. I cannot think of any situation that works with power used, just because using it always fears some people. Can you?
  2) I think it is natural to fear a situation in which you will have to get along without what you were used to possess and that might also apply to (economic) power.
  3) I liked that he really applied what he was saying: Declaring fear as a psychological enemy, he tries hard to calm listeners down, although I am not able to say whether he is convincing after all, do you think so?

• A reply on Talk: Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?

  Oct 8 2010: ... and as such an "evolutionary defense mechanism" (what a nice phrase!) consider families as an incarnation of religious thoughts: The larger the families, the easier to spread the thoughts.

• A reply on Talk: Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?

  Oct 8 2010: your statement reminds me of John Stuart Mill who said: "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; ..." (see http://faculty.frostburg.edu/phil/forum/Mill.htm if your are interested in more details)
  meaning, a highly cultured person is worth more, and please substitute the "pig" by a new-born for your argument - and note one major difference: a new-born could (potentially) become even more sophisticated whereas (say) a pig cannot.
  
  I agree, though, that there is no sense in judging some lives higher than others - but lets judge potentials, higher and lower potentials - just to be realistic.
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  A comment on Talk: Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?

  Aug 19 2010: As he makes fun of stereotypes he also was able to make me think about me. It's gentle to get reminded about own misbehavior by humor which probably sets a corner stone for living together peacefully, I hope.
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  A comment on Talk: Jacqueline Novogratz on escaping poverty

  Aug 18 2010: Jane gave us a perfect lesson in: live your dreams because your dreams are anything you have in your life
  
  I think, the talk asks whether Jane is indeed poor, even though no longer falling below the $1/day earnings level) or not. Pecuniary I would still say yes and claim that the $1-a-day-rule is of no use for her - she still is not able to buy what she essentially needs as it seems, has no option to move away. So yes, she is poor. Especially as I was once told: Luxury means having an option, outside-options let's say. She does not really have such - however, and that is what is so enriching: She still is able to find her own options - within her range - changed her life to one she always wanted to live and thus herself enriched her life by truly living her dreams. So: No, she is not poor, not at all (in her heart).