Natural selection in its most general form means the differential survival of entities ( Read more... )

(black swans and white swans) It illustrates a severe limitation to our learning from observations or experience and the fragility of our knowledge. One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need is a single black bird ( Read more... )

Очень опасно относиться к переговорному процессу с точки зрения "выиграл" или "проиграл". Причин несколько. Во-первых, думая о сиюминутном выигрыше или проигрыше мы концентрируемся на тактике, забывая о стратегии ( Read more... )

neural entrainment

The are practical, decision-making conversations that focus on What's This Really About? There are emotional conversations, which ask How Do We Feel? And there are social conversations that explore Who Are WeSpecifically, we want to learn how the people around us see the world and help them understand our perspectives in turn ( Read more... )

we modern people are more sympathetic to the behaviour which cannot be changed, but we can still be critical or questionning of a lifestyle which we think is a matter of choice ( Read more... )

Conventional political analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

The imperialism of Atlantic Europe created a single world.

Grand Strategy is not always about war. It is about all of the processes that ( Read more... )

... the world seemed too large and too silent for them [emigrating parents] to make a choice ( Read more... )

The chances of finding a pearl in an oyster are 1 in 12.000. The chances of being hit by lightning are 1 in 700,000. The odds of the soul surviving the body's death are one in nothing, one in nada, one in zilch ( Read more... )

genius to recognize that the sins of Rome could seem far more enticing than any contemporary offering (about Las Vegas's Caesar's Palace ( Read more... )

Georg Simmel argue that fashion serves as a means of both identifying with and dissociating oneself from others. New styles of consumption are often developed by those just below the top rungs of the social ladder. They then trickle down the status hierarchies, becoming devalued and vulgarized in the process ( Read more... )