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Sometimes history brings people painful disillusionment. Two examples: How Nazi Germany exposed illusions about “civilization;” and how recent history exposed illusions about the near indestructibility of American democracy. In the Western world, the idea of “civilization” long functioned as a powerful ideal. “Civilized” contrasted with words like “savage,” “barbarous,” and “primitive.” More “civilized” meant better. “Ci...

Major conflicts often get focused on a particular battlefield. Like Gettysburg — in the American Civil War. Like Waterloo — where the battle that ended the Napoleonic Era was fought. In America in these times, the “war” is over whether America will remain a democracy — i.e. whether the American government — as founded to be of the people, for the people, by the people — will perish from this earth. (A recent poll indicates the 87% of Americans are either â€�...

In this interview, Professor Nichola Raihani explains how embarking on zoology and psychology can take you in many directions career-wise, and reveals the

© Miaow Miaow The territory of the GHP in Hungary. The lifestyle and eating habits of human groups that have lived for thousands of years can be examined by tooth.An international research group analyzed the prehistoric findings of the Neolithic Age. In addition to providing knowledge about the lifestyles of people who lived in prehistoric times, a novel study of tooth remains paved the way for other methods previously not used. This study applies the complementary approaches of stable isotop...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The study on the remains of animals found at the site of the Chaves cave in Huesca, led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, obtains new data on the control... view more  Credit: Alejandro Sierra The results, exceptional first time evidence of how early flocks of domesticated sheep fed and reproduced within the Iberian Peninsula, are currently the first example of the modification of sheeps seasonal reproductive rhythms with the aim of adapting them to human needs...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Raquel Hernando, on the left, making dental moulds; Photo credit: Marina Lozano. On the right image, Beatriz Gamarra (centre) collecting samples at the Herman Ottó Museum (Miskolc, Hungary), together with... view more  Credit: Photo credit: Marina Lozano Photo credit Tamás Hajdu The lifestyle and eating habits of human groups that have lived for thousands of years can be examined by tooth. An international research group analyzed the prehistoric findings of the Neolit...

© Cambridge University Press La Almoloya, in Murcia, southern Spain, home to the El Argar, a society among the first to use bronze.The lavish discoveries could undermine the idea that state power is almost exclusively a product of male-dominated societies, researchers say. A trove of ornate jewelry, including a silver diadem, suggest a woman buried nearly 4,000 years ago in what is modern-day Spain was a ruler of surrounding lands who may have commanded the might of a state, according to a stu...

The lavish discoveries could undermine the idea that state power is almost exclusively a product of male-dominated societies, researchers say.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ca. 1900. Photo: C. F. Lummis. Restoration by Adam Cuerden. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. When I first read “The Yellow Wall-Paper” years ago, before I knew anything about its author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I loved it. I loved the unnerving, sarcastic tone, the creepy ending, the clarity of its critique of the popular nineteenth-century “rest cure”—essentially an extended time-out for depressed women. The story had irony, urgency, anger. On the l...