As political positions have crystallised in the week following the attacks, there is increasing conflation of these three elements within the debate.
Much has been said about the attacks that does not require repeating. Yet it is worth bearing out that the Paris attacks may indeed be an inflection point in this century’s history.
Our intellectual ascendency defined us as a species and is inextricably linked to our success and our ability to connect with one another.
In the early 20th century, this led to a split in the field of statistics, with intense debates taking place about whose methods and ways of thinking were better.
Biosocial criminologists endure reputational attacks often. The field of criminology is not an especially cordial place to work.
It implies the effortlessness in which a fragment of a song, arriving in the inner ear without conscious effort, can continually loop and stick around.
The tyranny of confirmation bias and the fanaticism of its enforcers are not only a disaster for academics themselves.
Blockchain is important because it provides a way to communicate electronically that mimics face-to-face transacting in the physical world.
Western leaders who claim to be progressive, compassionate or 'feminist' are placed in awkward situations when the atrocities of their ally are broadcast on a weekly, almost daily basis.
The decline in female subjective wellbeing was found to cut across both class and race and held true for women of all ages, with children and without.
Strident, inflammatory, provocative, opinionated – in numerous ways, Greer is difficult to like. She annihilates men and belittles other women, shooting down feminist allies from Friedan to Weldon.
It is puzzling how smart people can diverge so much on political issues. Especially when their lines of reasoning are completely delineated, covering much of the arguments in dispute.
My grandfather is also a Holocaust survivor. At his age, he is one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors. His story is unsurprisingly a harrowing and sad one.
Why I'm pro-democracy; anti-totalitarianism; and support for universal human rights.
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