{"id":36331,"date":"2011-12-28T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36331"},"modified":"2013-11-09T04:47:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T09:47:54","slug":"of-what-are-humans-capable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/12\/28\/of-what-are-humans-capable\/","title":{"rendered":"Of What Are Humans Capable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For the last week of December, we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite posts from 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/11.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36337\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/11.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/11.jpg 560w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/11-500x107.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPeople seem to love to talk about human nature. But when they do, they often do so with the smallest of imaginations. The 10-minute video below suggests that scientists have only begun to understand what humans are capable of. Prepare to be amazed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G1QaCeosUmw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ketyov.com\/2011\/05\/we-are-all-inattentive-superheroes.html\">Oscillatory Thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last week of December, we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite posts from 2011. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 People seem to love to talk about human nature. But when they do, they often do so with the smallest of imaginations. The 10-minute video below suggests that scientists have only begun to understand what humans are capable of. 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