Social Animal

I know this article may be a little bit long but if you read one thing all day, it should be this. It is incredibly well written and ties tidbits of science research to everyday life. The author tells a story that I think everyone can relate to in some ways..

Anyways, its titled "Social Animal- How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life" and is written by David Brooks.

Here's one of my favorite (though not necessarily characteristic) quotes from the piece:

"...We inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us."