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…e general average fast; either way it means there are fewer dumb people around. The Flynn Effect has recently slowed in western countries, suggesting it might be that intelligence is converging rather than increasing overall. Another interesting fact is people become more intelli...

…k a thousand years, people’s goals were quite different: How do I get my food? How do I keep myself safe? In the modern Western world, for the most part you don’t spend a large fraction of your life thinking about those purposes. From the point of view of a thousand years ago, so...

…pecially in the period before the election. A recent report by the Arms Control Association enumerates several of them. Western diplomats, for example, could take up Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's foreign minister, on his proposal to limit the "extent" of enrichment -- 1.e., well below...

…s in his personal profit-and-loss account. He knows that he need fear no foreign military intervention: After Libya, no Western power would even contemplate it. Some soldiers have defected to the rebels, but there has been no major split in the army or the security services, or i...

…boomer Americans: China’s attraction to MTV, McDonalds and Mercedes hinted at a still deeper desire they thought. To be Western. China’s citizens would surely become more attracted and committed to the world system that had delivered all this prosperity. The country would become...

…azine intern in a city that has a reputation as arelatively safe place for women. In 2012, the incidence of rape in the Western Indian metropolis was about half the national rate, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. "I've always felt much safer in Mumbai compared to...

…the old Africa's belief in magic has been subverted by the outside world. Tickets are still available to see a giant of Western letters. PARTNER CONTENT Recommended reading from The Periscope Post Is royal wedding fever out of control — or is it just right? Did President Obama...

…ays helpful, for instance, to ask how what the enemy accuses us of is more appropriately descriptive of it. When we add Western Guilt and Shame, our need to be liked, and o ther psychological dimensions, basic thoughts solidify into larger fantasies. As these narratives (“Our co...

…ays helpful, for instance, to ask how what the enemy accuses us of is more appropriately descriptive of it. When we add Western Guilt and Shame, our need to be liked, and o ther psychological dimensions, basic thoughts solidify into larger fantasies. As these narratives (“Our co...

…my self believe that african music, westrn music , chinese music are a window into the the structure of those layers. . western rigid, african primitve , chinese nature based,. I belive that synphoic movments best describe your layering. | they open with a basic simple melody, ,...

… had already broken the main resistance of the Syrians, but fighting was continuing in a few parts of the Golan. In the western corner of the Heights which bordered Lebanon, several villages still lay beyond the Israeli advance. We got an order to see if we could take them. It to...

…my self believe that african music, westrn music , chinese music are a window into the the structure of those layers. . western rigid, african primitve , chinese nature based, . I belive that synphoic movments best describe your layering, they open with a basic simple melody„ aft...

…ng it takes and whatever the risk that nuclear weapons will be built in the meantime. He exhibits more sympathy for non-Western proliferators and their needs than for the major powers and their security and political concerns. At times

… concerned with our small group’ parameters. The Philosophers and philosophies I’m drawn to are those that question the Western obsession with individualism. Those are coming from so many different places, and they re reviving so many different kinds of questions and problems th...

and I think we’ll be disappointed in the short run. I don’t think the more pro-Western forces are the ones that will end up on top in the short-run. But we’ve got to start somewhere.