History: Peace, love and lab work

Mothers, machines, and morals: Harry Harlow's work on primate love from lab to legend.

MARGA VICEDO teaches history of biology at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. She holds a PhD in philosophy of science from the University of Valencia, and a PhD in history of science from Harvard University. She is interested in the history and philosophy of biology in the twentieth century, especially the history of genetics, e...

A Natural History of Peace

More discomfiting is the continuum that has been demonstrated in the realm of cognition. We now know, for example, that other species invent tools and use them with dexterity and local cultural variation. Other primates display "semanticity" (the use of symbols to refer to objects and actions) in their communication in ways that would impress any linguist. And experiments have shown other prima...

Peace Through Light - the Airborne Laser Lab Program

te c h o p s D irected Energy Weapons (DEW) have been a recurring theme in science fiction literature and cinema ever since H.G. Wells published the ‘War of the Worlds’ in 1898. The idea of a ‘death ray’ that can instantly destroy or burn a target at a distance retains its allure to this very day. More than a century after Wells contrived his ‘heat ray’ the technology is maturing to the point o...

Putting Neuroscience to Work for Peace

Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?

Countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Angola, and Sierra Leone are now attempting to recover from major wars, often amidst continuing insecurity. The challenge is to achieve a broad-based recovery that benefits the majority of people. The economic and social recovery of conflict-affected countries cannot be separated from their interaction with the rest of the world through flows of finance, goo...