Posts Tagged ‘Social Insight’
Monkey Economicus?
Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.
Laurie Santos studies primate psychology and monkeynomics —...
August 4th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
Valery Yarynich glances nervously over his shoulder. Clad in a brown leather jacket, the 72-year-old former Soviet colonel is hunkered in the back of the dimly lit Iron Gate restaurant in Washington, DC. It’s March 2009—the Berlin Wall came down two decades ago—but the lean and fit Yarynich...
July 20th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More
Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World
Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year’s list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with controversial, game-changing propositions. We found a prison reformer who wants to empty jails,...
July 13th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More
A Ladies’ Man and Shameless
Das ewig weibliche zieht uns hinan.
The eternally feminine leads us forward.
– Goethe
He who binds himself to a joy does the winged life destroy,
But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity’s sunrise.
– William Blake
Only connect.
– E. M. Forster
I‘m finally...
July 13th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
Why can’t we stop Believing?
Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things — from alien abductions to dowsing rods — boils down to two of the brain’s most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.
As founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine,...
July 6th, 2010 | Science of the Mind | Read More
Mutation in key gene allows Tibetans to thrive
The gene mutation that enables people to thrive at high altitudes is much more common in Tibetans than Han Chinese and may represent the strongest instance of natural selection ever documented in a human population.
From the Guardian, by Cian O’Luanaigh
A gene that controls red blood cell production...
July 5th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
“WATSON: THE NEEDLE!”
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND COCAINE
By Mike Jay – http://mikejay.net/
Cocaine was the great pharmaceutical success story of the last decades of the nineteenth century. In a few short years, it went from a minor item in specialist catalogues to a major seller in a huge range of preparations in high-street...
July 1st, 2010 | Arts | Read More
International drug crime measures ‘lead to executions’
Enforcement by Britain, the UN and the EU backs up regimes that ignore human rights, says report.
The United Nations, the European commission and individual states including Britain are flouting international human rights law by funding anti-drug crime measures that are inadvertently leading to the executions...
June 30th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
Noam Chomsky and Latin America
Noam Chomsky speaks about the future and predicts difficult situations for China and India. On the other hand he analyzes the appearance of progressiveness in Latin America as very important. For the first time in 500 years, LA is moving towards a degree of independence and a kind of integration and...
June 7th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
How Dudus stayed ahead of the Police
The fugitive whose supporters have reduced the Jamaican capital to a war zone used improvised bombs, closed-circuit TV and cross-dressing mercenaries to defend his stronghold, police said yesterday.
From The Times Online by James Bone
As the manhunt for Christopher “Dudus” Coke entered its third...
June 7th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
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‘Molecules of Madness’
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How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs
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Zeppelin Renaissance
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Time for Change
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Do You Want to Live Forever?
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Dream2Awaken: It is amazing that you describe and explain many things that one could have only learned through extensive use of DMT. Y...
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tinuvi: Your third- and second-to-last paragraphs remind me so much of myself and what I've called "my quest." After leaving a m...
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Merrily McCarthy: Our state of awareness may be relative to what we feed into our consious systems...;the more we know and understand...th...
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Arthur Robey: I am passionate about Airships. We took a wrong turn in 1945 at the Chicago Convention where, because the USA with it'...
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DZERLOVE: What people simply ignore - is that our current man made laws applied back in acient times , which is simply what they a...
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