The banality of the banality of evil
“The most horrendous crimes have been committed by ordinary people.”
Hannah Arendt
“Politics is not the art of lying, it’s the art of speaking the minimal...
A brief history of homosexuality
No matter how far-out it strikes you, homosexuality did not exist before 1869, not before the Hungarian doctor Benkert invented it. Up until then,...
Did Einstein eat peas?
Now for something out of the ordinary because, as we all know, too much exposure to topicality causes severe and permanent damage to the...
The beast inside us: The Milgram experiment
The Milgram experiment is one of the most widely known unethical experiments of psychology, a prank that laid bare the human soul. In 1961,...
Marriage and fornication – scientific confirmation
Let’s wrap up this article with a piece of advice: if you want a happy marriage, find someone who is on the same wavelength; mostly with regard to culture and personality so that you will have something to talk about when your joints ache.
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...