To put it very simply, Dr. Storr's message is this: aggression is something we cannot eradicate, but must learn to control. Without it, the human species could not exist; because of it, the human species faces extinction. Without it, the individual human being would be reduced to nothingness; because of it, he may inflict appalling suffering on himself and others of his kind. Granting Dr. Storr...

In 2003 an unusually forthcoming U.S. battalion commander told the New York Times how he would win Iraqi hearts and minds: “With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them.”[1] To Roger Petersen, an MIT political scientist, this statement epitomizes the problem with Western military intervention–a proble...

Transgender Day of Remembrance has become a significant political event among those resisting violence against gender-variant persons. Commemorated in more than 250 locations worldwide, this day honors individuals who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. However, by focusing on transphobia as the definitive cause of violence, this ritual potentially obscures the ways in whic...

Acclaimed as one of the great filmmakers of the 20th century, Ingmar Bergman is for many an arch-modernist, whose work is characterized by a high degree of self-conscious artistry and by dark, even nihilistic themes. Film critics increasingly identify him as a kind of philosopher of the human condition, especially of the dislocations and misery of the modern human condition. However, Bergman’s ...

“An interesting question is, ’Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?’ The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington name Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word, research. I’m not using the term lightly; I’m using it precisely. His face would suffuse, he would tu...

Like many societies, Poland seems to be increasingly split by the negative feelings of its citizens feel towards one another because ways in which they vote. This phenomenon is known as electoral hostility. paper sheds light on what it entails political and psychological terms. A unique feature this research methodological approach, combining family focus groups individual interviews up 70 part...

PROBABLY the most fundamental characteristic of the human mind is its hatred for contradictions. All of our thinking is fundamentally influenced by this dislike; and the rôle of the mathematician, in his relation to reality, may be described in a fairly adequate manner by saying that it is his business to remove all contradictions from our discussions and, by gradually extending the scope of th...

Marie Curie was Polish born, her maiden name was Sklodowska. Her father was a high school teacher, an able physicist; her mother was a teacher as well. They were keen patriots and most unhappy about the sad fate of their fatherland. Poland was under the heel of tsarist Russia. Supervisors were sent from Moscow to verify if the school children were brought up as Russian patriots and were taught ...