The original Olympics were a religious festival meant to occasion the divine spark in man. The early Greeks believed that humans could come close to being gods when competition pulled the best out of them. They also believed that humans
Words are the fuel of courtship. Other species win their mates through a series of escalating dances, but humans use conversation. Geoffrey Miller notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. And yet the most frequent
Ninety percent of emotional communication is nonverbal. Gestures are an unconscious language that we use to express not only our feelings but to generate them as well. By making a gesture, we help produce an internal state. Amy Cuddy, a