Nip the buds, shoot the kids
"In one day one can experience the horrors of hell; there is plenty of time for that."
Wittgenstein
As a matter of fact, in this century...
Adultery makes the world go round
Madame Bovary’s approach and the Coolidge effect
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One of the biggest conventional lies is that human beings are monogamous creatures. This is the basis for...
Birds born in a cage don’t know how to fly
An anthropologist (let us call her Jane) visited an African tribe (let us call it Narash).
The Narash had been in touch with civilization –...
Homo Sarcophilus
The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is the largest carnivorous marsupial – after the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger in 1936.
It’s not bigger than a small dog,...
The Greatest Genocide in Human History
In human History, genocides are such an ordinary phenomenon, that it looks like as if humans are direct descendants of the ants.
From the close...
Politicians’ neurological disorder
Oliver Sacks presents in his famous book “The man who mistook his wife for a hat” a unique case of optical agnosia.
In this case...