While the paper implicates this problem to unintended consequences of COPPA, I would lay more of the blame on Facebook for not properly validating members' ages. While this perhaps would not be in Facebook's financial interests, it seems to be that these results demonstrate that by not doing this, they are in fact not meeting the spirit of the COPPA law. To make an analogy, suppose a law gave a...

Nowadays, due to the advances of many industries people tend to travel much more in compared to the past. Without any doubt, various types of climates and weathers, vemacular diseases, changes in life style and qualitative and quantitative changes of nutrition are all the factors of which many diseases occur during trips. Travel associated anxieties and fears are common. It has been suggested t...

Institutions in the History of Chile (1820 – 1925) Samuel Tschorne V. Universidad Adolfo Ibañéz Introduction The objective of this paper is to make a meaningful contribution to the debate over the importance of institutions and law in the political history of Chile during the 19 century. It is commonly held that in Chile there is a majoritarian opinion according to which we enjoy an exceptional...

It is generally assumed that if it is possible to believe that p without believing that q, then there is some difference between the object of the thought that p and the object of the thought that q. This assumption is challenged in the present paper, opening the way to an account of epistemic opacity that improves on existing accounts, not least because it casts doubt on various arguments that...

We examined the attentional demands of the preparation process that intervenes a warning stimulus (S1) and a subsequent reaction stimulus (S2). Twelve participants performed a reaction task with a variable S1–S2 interval both with and without concurrent memory load that served to deplete attentional resources. We found that memory load did not modify the effect of the S1-S2 interval on reaction...

T he Internet is a wonderful research tool. With the click of a mouse, you can beam yourself into what seems an infinite number of important lectures by eminent thinkers around the world. Just such an opportunity awaits if you search for Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at the University of California, berkeley. The results of such a search include a video of Professor Muller castigating...