La gimnasia artística femenina, del totalitarismo científico al totalitarismo consumista (1952-2018) = Female artistic gymnastics: From scientific totalitarianism to consumerist totalitarianism (1952-2018)

Islamism and Totalitarianism

Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and even more so since the spectacular attacks by Qa‘idat al-Jihad against the U.S. on 9/11, there has been an ever-growing flood of academic and journalistic publications devoted to radical Islam. Unfortunately, much of that literature has embodied problematic conceptual perspectives that can best be characterized as ‘Islam bashing’, ‘Islam apologism’, o...

Correction to Bratt et al. (2018)

Reports an error in "Perceived age discrimination across age in Europe: From an ageing society to a society for all ages" by Christopher Bratt, Dominic Abrams, Hannah J. Swift, Christin-Melanie Vauclair and Sibila Marques (Developmental Psychology, 2018[Jan], Vol 54[1], 167-180). In the article, the copyright license has been changed to the Creative Commons CC-BY Attribution License. The online...

Looking back to 1952

In a review of the proceedings of the first MT conference, held at MIT in June 1952, it is found that the principal issues discussed have continued to be the focus of MT research to the present day, despite the substantial computational and linguistic advances since the early 1950s.

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

Norman Haire (1892-1952)

Norman Haire was a physician who advocated for eugenics [4], which is the betterment of human population by promoting positive traits, and birth control [5] rights in the twentieth century in both Australia and the UK. In the UK, Haire joined the Malthusian League, a contraception [6] advocacy organization [7], and helped the League open the first physiciansupervised birth control [5] clinic, c...