The Killing

Killing begets killing: evidence from a bug-killing paradigm that initial killing fuels subsequent killing.

Killing appears to perpetuate itself even in the absence of retaliation. This phenomenon may occur in part as a means to justify prior killing and so ease the threat of prior killing. In addition, this effect should arise particularly when a killer perceives similarity to the victims because similarity should exacerbate threat from killing. To examine these ideas, the authors developed a bug-ki...

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Killing Tensors and Conformal Killing Tensors from Conformal Killing Vectors

Koutras has proposed some methods to construct reducible proper conformal Killing tensors and Killing tensors (which are, in general, irreducible) when a pair of orthogonal conformal Killing vectors exist in a given space. We give the completely general result demonstrating that this severe restriction of orthogonality is unnecessary. In addition we correct and extend some results concerning Ki...

The Killing of History

HISTORY is a discipline that straddles both the humanities and the social sciences. History’s credentials as a science derive from three of its objectives: first, it aims to record the truth about what happened in the past; second, it aims to build a body of knowledge about the past; third, it aims to study the past through a disciplined methodology, using techniques and sources that are access...

The Joy of Killing

I grew up in rural Appalachia, and now live and teach college in a similar area in Pennsylvania, the state in which sport hunting is the most popular. Thus, I have known many hunters, including family members, and have taught more than a few. The first day of buck season on the Monday after Thanksgiving invariably finds me teaching fewer people than usual. When the hunters have returned, buzzin...