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Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions. ↗

— Jim Henson

#college #did #doing #fairly #first

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing. ↗

— Jim Henson

#access #almost #assisting #audience #bridge

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. ↗

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #environment #had #high #males

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. ↗

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #characteristics #evolution #our #promoted

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. ↗

— Keith Henson

#behaviour #brains #chemicals #flooding #generations

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success. ↗

— Keith Henson

#attention #brain #chemicals #improves #leads

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives. ↗

— Keith Henson

#children #had #over #wives #women

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. ↗

— Keith Henson

#cults #expenses #massive #military #movements

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. ↗

— Keith Henson

#best #captured #dying #escape #fighting

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else. ↗

— Jason Sudeikis

#comedy #dark #else #five #goes