There shall be order

You Shall Be as Gods

the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separat...

Dissonant Synapses Shall Be Punished

Synaptic activity in the neonatal brain is often locally synchronized. How such clustering comes about is unclear. Winnubst et al. (2015) show that the refinement of synaptic connectivity is driven by the depression of synapses that are asynchronous with their neighbors.

Shall evidence-based risk assessment be abandoned?

How shall a thing be called.

The most deliberate part of first-language teaching is the business of telling a child what each thing is called. We ordinarily speak of the name of a thing as if there were just one, but in fact, of course, every referent has many names. The dime in my pocket is not only a dime. It is also money, a metal object, a thing, and, moving to subordinates, it is a 1952 dime, in fact a particular 1952...

"And the last shall be first..."

This paper explores the political economy of fiscal policy in the German Länder, testing several theories from the cross-national literature on budget deficits along with some additional hypotheses relating to the incentives created by the German federal system. The results suggest that governments controlled by the left spend and borrow more in the long run than right-wing governments, though ...