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Sep 20, 2026
Zionism was a revolution in Jewish theological and political history, not a natural continuation.
Sep 20, 2026
Zionism perpetuates Jewish exceptionalism and tells a version of Jewish history disconnected from others.
Sep 20, 2026
Young military personnel aged 18-25 show higher optimism bias and willingness to take risks than older personnel.
Sep 20, 2026
Worries about personal health and financial security are related to higher levels of psychological distress.
Sep 20, 2026
Women with an abuse history reported poorer adult adjustment, with different coping strategies predictive of adjustment for abused vs. nonabused women.
Sep 20, 2026
Women in China's re-education camps have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured, according to detailed first-hand accounts from former detainees.
Sep 20, 2026
Without empirical refutation of either general relativity or quantum mechanics, it is the incommensurability between the theories that has most driven theoretical physics forward.
Sep 20, 2026
Without critical reflection in supervision, there is a lack of awareness of oppressive structures in social work.
Sep 20, 2026
With Palestinians virtually erased from the history of suffering, every Zionist act of displacement is framed not as terrorization but as...
Sep 20, 2026
With heritability well below 1.00, IQ must be subject to substantial environmental influences, though genetic influence increases with age while shared family environment effects shrink by late…
Sep 20, 2026
Willful ignorance is the deliberate avoidance of relevant information because the truth would be uncomfortable or would create pressure to act.
Sep 20, 2026
Wild-hatched eagles with strong natal habitat preference induction show clear fidelity to landscapes resembling natal areas, while those lacking this imprinting show only innate cue responses…
Sep 20, 2026
White, physically, is light seen when all visible wavelengths combine; lacking hue, it is considered an achromatic color.
Sep 20, 2026
White perception can also arise from mixing just a few wavelengths, such as red, green and blue, or a pair of complementary colors like blue and yellow
Sep 20, 2026
White is 'the unblemished marker of purity' and 'the ideal foil — the contrast against which all other colors look more vibrant,' while standing in stark opposition to black.
Sep 20, 2026
White has special status among colors, experienced as achromatic or an absence of hue, and its perception is not explained by a simple null point of cone-opponent mechanisms but involves…
Sep 20, 2026
White and black are also colors, with Newton himself noting 'The first of all simple colours is White, though philosophers will not acknowledge either White or Black to be colours.'
Sep 20, 2026
White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly also insisted that Trump 'always had the full picture of the conflict.'
Sep 20, 2026
White Americans distorted Black features, language, and culture to codify whiteness as its antithesis
Sep 20, 2026
White (shiro) is a sacred color of the gods and the symbol of spiritual and physical purity in Japan, yet in Buddhism it also means death and was used in seppuku.
Sep 20, 2026
When on automatic pilot we are unaware and out of touch with the present moment; conscious awareness is clouded.
Sep 20, 2026
Western showed significantly stronger color-valence interactions than Mainland Chinese for red-green but not red-white oppositions, revealing cultural variation in implicit color-valence associations.
Sep 20, 2026
We've all been exposed to tens of thousands of virtually untested chemicals for decades
Sep 20, 2026
We know that our human consciousness has evolved naturally.
Sep 20, 2026
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Sep 20, 2026
We should respect corpses because violating them would be a violation of human dignity, and it is still a violation
Sep 20, 2026
We exist neither in closed horizons nor within a horizon that is unique; we must reject both the assumption of absolute knowledge and the assumption of objectivity.
Sep 20, 2026
We find that for the one quarter of the population most deficient in iodine this intervention raised IQ by approximately one standard deviation.
Sep 20, 2026
We have a duty to treat the dead with dignity as a duty deriving from our good will, independent of religious considerations or concerns of virtue.
Sep 20, 2026
Views on whether being born in one's country is important to national identity vary widely across 23 countries, with 81% of Swedes saying it is not important.
Sep 20, 2026
Victims of childhood abuse learn coping strategies early in life as a means of survival, though these traits can become maladaptive in adult relationships.
Sep 20, 2026
Using a climate-vegetation model, pastoralism in fact likely slowed the deterioration of orbitally-driven climate change.
Sep 20, 2026
Using 4.4 million tests of implicit and explicit attitudes from U.S. internet respondents, implicit sexuality, race, and skin-tone attitudes decreased in bias over 2007-2016 and were forecast to…
Sep 20, 2026
Unresolved anger is a key driver of financial self-sabotage, including overspending and avoidance of money issues.
Sep 20, 2026
Unless you know it all, there will always be truths that are by their very nature unknowable.
Sep 20, 2026
Understanding consciousness requires not treating organisms like machines and minds like code.
Sep 20, 2026
Under the silver spoon hypothesis, individuals experiencing a better early-life environment have higher lifetime fitness than those from worse early-life environments, a pattern found widely…
Sep 20, 2026
Uncertainty can be approached with curiosity instead of fear.
Sep 20, 2026
Two-thirds of our daily behaviours are initiated 'on autopilot', out of habit.
Sep 20, 2026
Two years on, the mislabeling problem still isn't properly fixed, just censored
Sep 20, 2026
Two peace activists — an Israeli and a Palestinian — turned devastating loss into a shared commitment to reconciliation.
Sep 20, 2026
Two men, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, tell the story of their unexpected journey toward understanding and reconciliation.
Sep 20, 2026
Two gray squares with identical reflectance appear different shades because one lies in cast shadow, showing perceived lightness does not track spectral reflectance.
Sep 20, 2026
Twin and adoption studies estimate genetic contribution to intelligence at 50–70% heritability, though molecular GWAS estimates run lower.
Sep 20, 2026
Turn silence acts independently as a conversational turn, replacing the tangible with the intangible and constituting meaningful discourse.
Sep 20, 2026
Trust in science is linked to receiver, message, and source factors; research integrity, scientists' perceived integrity, transparent epistemic practices, and epistemic inclusion are pivotal,…
Sep 20, 2026
Trump's campaign statement 'I think Islam hates us' and his proposed total shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S. constitute vitriolic anti-Muslim rhetoric foregrounded by an unprecedentedly…
Sep 20, 2026
Trump's 'I think Islam hates us' comment and the 2016-17 anti-Muslim rhetoric directly echo the Orientalist tradition Said documented, where Islam is depicted as monolithic, violent, and barbaric.
Sep 20, 2026
Too much self-awareness can lead to self-doubt, overly evaluative behavior, and unnecessary stress.
Sep 20, 2026
Too much self-awareness might spawn its own issues like paranoia, overthinking, and self-absorption.
Sep 20, 2026
To submit a formal request for government data, you must send it to the right person and follow the government entity's policies.
Sep 20, 2026
To dehumanize someone is to strip them of qualities that make them recognizable as fully human, so cruelty no longer feels like cruelty
Sep 20, 2026
To Picard the theologian, silence is the context of consciousness while language is the expression of creation.
Sep 20, 2026
Though not a single Spanish ship was, in fact, torched by the attack, the fireships caused many to cut their anchor cables in panic to avoid...
Sep 20, 2026
Thompson's archival and oral-history method was akin to anthropological participant-observation
Sep 20, 2026
This work is concerned with awakening from the nineteenth century
Sep 20, 2026
This lack of reflection impairs therapeutic capacity and the ability to be self-aware enough to participate in authentic relationship.
Sep 20, 2026
This reference guide is designed to familiarize you with the specific procedures for making a FOIA request to the EEOC.
Sep 20, 2026
This article aims at confronting the Israeli and Palestinian constitutive clash of national historical narratives and their significance in shaping identities.
Sep 20, 2026
This chapter may be cited as the 'Minnesota Government Data Practices Act.'
Sep 20, 2026
Third Culture Kids' identity involves negotiation, cultural multiplicity, and otherness from their passport country, not confusion but a poor fit with conventional identity constructs.
Sep 20, 2026
There will always be true mathematical statements that cannot be proved from any finite set of axioms.
Sep 20, 2026
There is generally no fixed relation between spectral distribution and perceived color, though a surface does have a determinable color under fixed viewing conditions.
Sep 20, 2026
There are no practical reasons to show respect for the dead - you don't get anything and the person is dead, so it makes no sense
Sep 20, 2026
There are reasonable grounds to believe RSF and allied militias committed numerous crimes against humanity, including murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence,…
Sep 20, 2026
There has been an admission of wrongdoing on the part of the Boston Police Department, and there should be an investigation into all convictions obtained during the years these corrupt officers…
Sep 20, 2026
There is a limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously known.
Sep 20, 2026
There are historical structural similarities between the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the state of Israel worth scholarly comparison.
Sep 20, 2026
The weather of 1588 appears to have been extraordinary; the Spanish were prevented from putting to sea for some weeks by contrary winds.
Sep 20, 2026
The transition to desert would have happened about 500 years earlier without the influence of hunter-gatherers and cattle-herders.
Sep 20, 2026
The terms 'addiction' and 'addictive design' can be the right ones for capturing distinctive concerns, though they are fraught.
Sep 20, 2026
The term was coined by Stanley Cohen in his 1973 book Folk Devils and Moral Panics.
Sep 20, 2026
The sixth chapter proposes that 'a normal Negro child, having grown up in a normal Negro family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact of the white world.'
Sep 20, 2026
The shore guns nor the galleys, nor the fireships did the slightest harm.
Sep 20, 2026
The secular trend in growth is almost entirely due to environmental factors since genetic changes in a whole population take far longer than the observed time interval.
Sep 20, 2026
The roots of financial secrecy almost always tap into deep psychological veins established long before the current relationship existed.
Sep 20, 2026
The right to petition dates back 800 years to the Magna Carta.
Sep 20, 2026
The right to petition permits us to ask government to take action but doesn't guarantee a desired result.
Sep 20, 2026
The reviewer calls 'somewhat more provocative, and problematic' the second half of Kumar's argument that US Islamophobia is a joint project between conservatives and liberals.
Sep 20, 2026
The report concludes evidence likely meets the requirements for crimes against humanity including persecution, imprisonment, torture, and may substantiate murder, rape, and other inhumane acts.
Sep 20, 2026
The relationship between trait-based dehumanization and punishment remains even when moral outrage is controlled for.
Sep 20, 2026
The pursuit of understanding is an end in itself, and the horizon of knowledge always eludes us.
Sep 20, 2026
The purpose of the Data Practices Act was to control the state's collection, security, and dissemination of information to protect privacy.
Sep 20, 2026
The prosecution rested its case and the defense called its first witness, Robert Costello.
Sep 20, 2026
The presence of the mother buffers HPA axis responses to stress in infant monkeys, with long-term effects on brain circuits involved in emotional regulation.
Sep 20, 2026
The podcast explores historical parallels between modern Israel and the Crusader kingdoms, examining whether Israel is repeating the Crusaders' fatal mistakes.
Sep 20, 2026
The phrase 'moral panic' was first used by Jock Young in 1971, but Cohen notes inspiration from Marshall McLuhan's work on media.
Sep 20, 2026
The paper's authors ran falsification tests using 58 other disorders instead of goitre to check their identification strategy, providing reassurance on the causal claim.
Sep 20, 2026
The paper defines 'acting with awareness' as 'an enhanced capacity for acting with present-centered awareness rather than on automatic pilot.'
Sep 20, 2026
The original IAT paper (Greenwald, McGhee & Schwartz, 1998) introduced response labels like 'pleasant' and 'unpleasant' assuming these unambiguously measured association strength and implicit…
Sep 20, 2026
The next day, the English continued their attacks, despite the Spanish use of heavy onshore guns and fireships sent in to disrupt the English.
Sep 20, 2026
The naval expedition, headed by Drake, consisted of four Royal Navy galleons, with Drake commanding the Elizabeth Bonaventure.
Sep 20, 2026
The myth of Jewish exceptionalism obscures that Jews are not the only people with such claims.
Sep 20, 2026
The most common adverse effects are anxiety and depression, followed by psychotic or delusional symptoms and dissociation.
Sep 20, 2026
The moral force behind the Zionist movement is a sense of Jewish, and consequently Israeli, exceptionalism.
Sep 20, 2026
The moral dimension of social reaction is essential to Cohen's concept of moral panic.
Sep 20, 2026
The media tend to portray mental illness in a negative fashion, frequently linking it with violence, dangerousness and crime.
Sep 20, 2026
The media and often those in a position of political power define a condition, or group, as a threat to societal values and interests.
Sep 20, 2026
The majority of neuroscientists ignore the question of how consciousness is generated.
Sep 20, 2026
The lower range of estimates is consistent with iodization raising IQ by 15 points, but also documents at least 10,000 excess deaths from iodine-induced hyperthyroidism.
Sep 20, 2026
The judge briefly cleared the courtroom while he admonished the witness and threatened to kick him off the stand.
Sep 20, 2026
The judge in Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial cleared the courtroom on Monday to reprimand a witness and ally of the former president.
Sep 20, 2026
The horizon is constantly moving, offering short bursts of validation but never final arrival.
Sep 20, 2026
The hard problem of consciousness is explaining why any physical state is conscious rather than nonconscious.
Sep 20, 2026
The generational rise in IQ scores is attributed to environmental factors like improved nutrition, education, and reduced toxin exposure.
Sep 20, 2026
The fundamental question of why there is something rather than nothing marks the limits of knowledge tied to limits of mind.
Sep 20, 2026
The fireships caused great confusion, forcing the Spanish ships to cut their cables in order to save themselves.
Sep 20, 2026
The fireships did almost no physical damage; not one Spanish ship actually caught fire, but the Spanish did not know they were ordinary.
Sep 20, 2026
The environmental impact of wars begins long before they do, through resource-intensive military build-up
Sep 20, 2026
The emotion-focused strategy was the most widely used coping strategy among IPV victims, with a mean score of 29.68 on the Brief COPE scale.
Sep 20, 2026
The earliest verifiable domesticated cattle at Nabta Playa is c. 5600 bc.
Sep 20, 2026
The earliest evidence of cattle domestication comes from the Eastern Sahara, where climatic desiccation advanced most rapidly.
Sep 20, 2026
The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia
Sep 20, 2026
The defense's apparent stumble on the $50,000 payment was noted in coverage of Robert Costello's testimony.
Sep 20, 2026
The dediticii exclusion hypothesis lacks strong independent evidence and citizenship shifted toward legal universalism
Sep 20, 2026
The creation of folk devils can kickstart a moral panic, with violent youth subcultures as the folk devils.
Sep 20, 2026
The common law already recognizes various posthumous rights (testamentary freedom, publicity, reproductive autonomy) and the categorical exclusion of the dead from constitutional protection is…
Sep 20, 2026
The challenge for modern Zionism is to move from defining the modern Jew to defining a political framework for modern Israel.
Sep 20, 2026
The case against Sean Ellis was 'tainted' by significant police corruption and prosecutorial misconduct, leading to his full exoneration.
Sep 20, 2026
The bias of crowds theory treats implicit bias tests as measures of situations more than persons, with most systematic variance in implicit bias being situational and context-dependent.
Sep 20, 2026
The average person spends about 47% of their day on 'autopilot,' following automated behaviors while their thoughts wander.
Sep 20, 2026
The attributes of cultural humility were openness, self-awareness, egoless, supportive interactions, and self-reflection and critique; antecedents were diversity and power imbalance.
Sep 20, 2026
The analogy between Israel and Outremer is usually drawn by Israel's enemies; 'Jews and Crusaders' was one of Osama bin Laden's epithets.
Sep 20, 2026
The Zionist-Crusader analogy is a politicized discourse that underpins and enables a certain reading of the 'Zionist entity.'
Sep 20, 2026
The Zionist-crusader analogy made by Arab scholars and writers and internalized by Israeli politicians has given rise to an Arab and Israeli 'Crusader anxiety'.
Sep 20, 2026
The Woburn case lasted 9 years and drove Schlichtmann into personal bankruptcy
Sep 20, 2026
The Woburn litigation drove Jan Schlichtmann to madness and altered him forever
Sep 20, 2026
The Witch Trials exemplify how a minority group can be identified as folk devils to generate fear and social control.
Sep 20, 2026
The White House denies that the Pentagon chief misinformed Donald Trump about the operation in the Middle East.
Sep 20, 2026
The Western group showed significantly stronger color-valence interaction than Mainland Chinese (but not Macanese) in red-green but not red-white opposition; findings diverge from explicit…
Sep 20, 2026
The Varieties of Contemplative Experience study identified more than 50 types of meditation-related challenging experiences across seven domains.
Sep 20, 2026
The UN Fact-Finding Mission found the RSF committed crimes against humanity at El Fasher, including murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence, forced displacement and…
Sep 20, 2026
The Sultan organized a new army of 80,000 men under Reshid Mehmed Pasha in a last-ditch attempt to block Ibrahim's advance.
Sep 20, 2026
The Spanish ships' heavy guns. They sustained serious damage and casualties without being able to reply effectively. Three Spanish ships were...
Sep 20, 2026
The Spanish would be forced to cut their anchor cables as they tried to avoid being burned, throwing the fleet into confusion and making it far easier for the English to attack.
Sep 20, 2026
The Spanish lost 44 ships and estimates suggest that between 10,000 to 20,000 people were killed or went missing.
Sep 20, 2026
The Satanic panic was a moral panic of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse, starting in the 1980s and persisting today.
Sep 20, 2026
The Petition Clause did not create the right to petition; that right existed before ratification of the Constitution.
Sep 20, 2026
The Ottoman army numbered 50,000 and lost 3,000 dead and 5,000 taken prisoner; Ibrahim's army of 15,000 were the 'most experienced and disciplined' force, with Reşid Mehmed Pasha captured.
Sep 20, 2026
The Ottoman army numbered ~50,000, far larger than Ibrahim's forces, but was better-led and trained by the Egyptians and lost 3,000 dead and 5,000 captured, the commander captured.
Sep 20, 2026
The Momo Challenge existed simultaneously as a contemporary legend and a moral panic, with each sustaining the other.
Sep 20, 2026
The Momo Challenge illustrates how contemporary legends can trigger moral panics in the digital age.
Sep 20, 2026
The Mods and Rockers panic reflected wider societal anxieties about youth, technology, and moral decline rather than the actual scale of antisocial behaviour.
Sep 20, 2026
The Minnesota Government Data Practices Act gives you the right to see and have copies of all public data that government has about you.
Sep 20, 2026
The MGDPA sets out requirements relating to public access to government data and the rights of individuals who are the subjects of that data.
Sep 20, 2026
The IAT as conventionally implemented is open to multiple interpretations and can provide contextually malleable measurement outcomes, distinguishing the malleability of the measure from the…
Sep 20, 2026
The Grand Vizier's new army numbered almost 50,000 troops of 'indifferent quality,' while Ibrahim's well-trained western-style army of under 30,000 won decisively at Konia.
Sep 20, 2026
The Gin Craze was a social, economic and political crisis intensified by underlying cultural anxieties concerning both gender and poverty.
Sep 20, 2026
The Gin Craze of the eighteenth century became the focal point for a wide range of only marginally-related social anxieties, transforming a problem into a crisis.
Sep 20, 2026
The Gin Craze was a moral panic about working-class women drinking gin.
Sep 20, 2026
The English sent fire ships into the Spanish anchorage at Calais, and prevailing winds and storms ultimately scattered and destroyed the Spanish fleet on its retreat.
Sep 20, 2026
The English translation renders the follow-up as 'This statement may not be immediately understandable' before proceeding to invoke Freud — not 'readily accepted.'
Sep 20, 2026
The Crusaders failed to build an everlasting kingdom; the podcast asks whether Zionism will meet the same fate.
Sep 20, 2026
The Clarks found most Black children preferred white dolls and assigned negative traits to Black ones, and black children in integrated 21st-century schools still view their Blackness negatively.
Sep 20, 2026
The Boston Latin grammar school was founded as a central colonial American institution in which boys received schooling that the era considered superior to girls'.
Sep 20, 2026
The 51-country joint statement condemned 'serious violations of human rights' and quoted the OHCHR assessment's finding that the detention 'may constitute international crimes, in particular…
Sep 20, 2026
The 1986 trial left the flamboyant young lawyer broke and 'broken in spirit'
Sep 20, 2026
Test score fade-out in Head Start may reflect various mechanisms and is not necessarily inconsistent with overall gains in health and home environment.
Sep 20, 2026
Technophysio evolution describes how technology and nutrition advances drove intergenerational rises in human height over the last century, independent of genetic change.
Sep 20, 2026
TCK identity is unconventional, not defined by geophysical places or nationality, race, ethnicity, language, or religion, but by relational bonds from shared transitory cultural experiences.
Sep 20, 2026
TCKs define belonging more through personal relationships than geographic locations, so their sense of belonging is about 'who' rather than 'where' they are from.
Sep 20, 2026
Survivors persist through demanding situations via strategies like persistence, self-care, sense of control, and engagement in recreational or physical activities.
Sep 20, 2026
Supportive relationships provide emotional comfort, practical help, and a sense of belonging during difficult times.
Sep 20, 2026
Sundet et al. showed intelligence and height increased in an identical pattern among Norwegian military draftees 1950-1990, though height gains were driven by the upper half of the distribution…
Sep 20, 2026
Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins' office filed a nolle prosequi, officially dropping the charges and fully exonerating Sean Ellis.
Sep 20, 2026
Successful dehumanizing creates moral exclusion, placing targeted groups outside the scope of moral protection
Sep 20, 2026
Studies have described adverse events such as anxiety, pain, and psychosis associated with mindfulness meditation.
Sep 20, 2026
Strachey translated the everyday German Anlehnung as the arcane 'anaclisis,' making English readers unable to understand what Freud meant.
Sep 20, 2026
Stanley Cohen showed how a small event can grow into a national moral crisis through media exaggeration, public fear, and official control measures.
Sep 20, 2026
Spectral reflectance does not determine perceived color, since any achromatic paper can be made to appear any shade of white, gray, or black, the physics of reflectance diverging from color…
Sep 20, 2026
Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten, except in folklore and collective memory; at other times it has more serious and long-lasting repercussions.
Sep 20, 2026
Some 20,000 Albanians and Bosnians whose recent revolts had been crushed were pressed into service in Resid Mehmed Pasha's army that countered the invading Egyptians in 1832-33, with hostages…
Sep 20, 2026
Sociologists have shown that young people are often rendered societal 'folk devils'—portrayed as rejecting traditional values, and thus as a threat to the social order.
Sep 20, 2026
Societal collapse is characterized by the downfall of government and the rise of violence
Sep 20, 2026
Social workers must take action against all forms of oppression, racism, discrimination, and inequities, and acknowledge their own biases.
Sep 20, 2026
Social support and caregiving processes in couples involve normative activation of the caregiving system and individual differences in capacity for responsive care.
Sep 20, 2026
Social support includes emotional support, belonging in a social community, being valued, practical help, and information and guidance.
Sep 20, 2026
Social support influences relationship satisfaction by acting as a buffer against stress and adversity.
Sep 20, 2026
Social relationships influence immune processes via two distinct pathways including inflammatory cytokine production sensitive to social threat and support.
Sep 20, 2026
Social relationships serve as buffers against stress and protective factors against risk for disease.
Sep 20, 2026
Social interactions are now technology-mediated and increasingly formed between humans and AI, reshaping communication
Sep 20, 2026
Social isolation and loneliness were associated with a 32% and 14% higher risk of all-cause mortality.
Sep 20, 2026
Since the early medieval period, Christendom largely viewed Islam as a Christian heresy and Muhammad as a false prophet, a servant of Satan, or the Antichrist.
Sep 20, 2026
Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything, the presence of time, undisturbed.
Sep 20, 2026
Silence is not the absence of sound but rather the presence of unintended sounds, as demonstrated by Cage's 4'33''.
Sep 20, 2026
Silence is not the mere absence of something else, but a complex positive phenomenon
Sep 20, 2026
Silence is nothing merely negative; it is a positive, a complete world in itself
Sep 20, 2026
Silence is nothing merely negative; it is not the mere absence of speech, but has a kind of Being of its own.
Sep 20, 2026
Silence is real, as darkness and cold are real; we feel these as positive sensations, not merely negations of something else.
Sep 20, 2026
Silence is a primary, objective reality which cannot be traced back to anything else, preserving the mark of the Divine in creation.
Sep 20, 2026
Silence is considered a speech act with illocutionary force, capable of transmitting different meanings across communicative contexts.
Sep 20, 2026
Silence is not simple; reevaluating its constitutional status requires distinguishing it from blankness and recognizing its communicative function.
Sep 20, 2026
Silence is a positive, a reality, and language has the power to make assertions about all reality.
Sep 20, 2026
Ships lost their anchors, and drifted out to sea to avoid catching fire, causing the Spanish ships' formation to be completely broken.
Sep 20, 2026
Self-dehumanization was moderately associated with anxiety, negative affect and physical symptoms of distress in a non-clinical population.
Sep 20, 2026
Self-awareness is a useful tool but can have negative impacts on daily life if excessive.
Sep 20, 2026
Seeking social support was the most prevalent coping strategy among IPV survivors (88.89% of studies), followed by escape-avoidance and problem-solving.
Sep 20, 2026
Second-generation Arab American activists reject Orientalist thought, producing counter-narratives against Orientalist, imperialist, and conventional nationalist articulations of self.
Sep 20, 2026
Sean Ellis's conviction was marred by corruption and was later overturned.
Sep 20, 2026
Science is done by brains and people, so claiming science can't explain consciousness is nonsensical.
Sep 20, 2026
Science has failed to adequately answer how human consciousness developed or what it actually is.
Sep 20, 2026
Science is conducted in social settings and knowledge is a collective achievement; expertise, authority, and the division of cognitive labor are irreducibly social, making trust in remote expert…
Sep 20, 2026
Science cannot address moral judgments, aesthetic judgments, or supernatural claims — it has inherent limits.
Sep 20, 2026
Science cannot answer the fundamental questions of human existence.
Sep 20, 2026
Schlichtmann says the experience bankrupted him but forced self-reflection and enriched his life
Sep 20, 2026
Scapegoating displaces anger and frustration onto vulnerable others, who are then persecuted.
Sep 20, 2026
Sanctions for litigation misconduct are frequently reversed or modified on appeal
Sep 20, 2026
Samson Raphael Hirsch offers a religious form of exceptionalist anti-nationalism, in which the divine mission of the Jewish nation requires...
Sep 20, 2026
Salt iodization beginning in 1924 raised IQ by approximately one standard deviation (15 points) for the quarter of the population most deficient in iodine.
Sep 20, 2026
Salt iodization raised IQ scores of millions of people by 15 IQ points in iodine-deficient regions and is highly cost-effective at pennies per person per year.
Sep 20, 2026
Said's writings on orientalism capture the demonization of Muslims today, when political figures declare 'Islam hates us' and frame Muslims as a domestic problem, placing contemporary anti-Muslim…
Sep 20, 2026
Said's survey concentrated on British and French varieties of Orientalism that supported the British and French Empires as commercial enterprises constructed from colonialism.
Sep 20, 2026
Said's Orientalism changed the meaning of 'Orientalism' from benevolent human interest in the East to an apparatus of knowledge and writing aligned with western imperial power.
Sep 20, 2026
Said's Orientalism critique has done more harm than good, delegitimizing the search for knowledge, ignoring Muslim scholars' positive contributions, and denigrating real threats like Islamist…
Sep 20, 2026
Said persistently conflates claims about the essence of Oriental racial identity with claims about the essence of Islamic religious doctrine, so a critique of racial essentialism does not easily…
Sep 20, 2026
Rumination interferes with successful self-regulation in response to stress and can perpetuate stress.
Sep 20, 2026
Rollins said the case was 'tainted by significant and egregious police corruption and prosecutorial misconduct.'
Sep 20, 2026
Robert Costello was called as a defense witness and quickly admonished by the judge for being contemptuous.
Sep 20, 2026
Robert Barclay wrote that Quaker worship consists neither in words nor in silence alone, but silence necessarily follows from holy dependence on God until words are given by the Spirit.
Sep 20, 2026
Robert Costello testified about the $50,000 bill because he never surpassed 9th place and CNBC never did pay.
Sep 20, 2026
Results are consistent with iodization raising IQ by 15 points in iodine-deficient areas and a nationwide average increase of ~3.5 IQ points.
Sep 20, 2026
Responsive support enhances satisfaction, intimacy, and trust; hostility and blame erode relationship quality.
Sep 20, 2026
Responsive social support in times of adversity is linked to increased satisfaction, intimacy, and trust in couples.
Sep 20, 2026
Responsive support engenders relationship benefits over time including increased satisfaction, intimacy, and trust.
Sep 20, 2026
Research shows autopilot can reduce mental clarity by 30% and most people don't notice it happening.
Sep 20, 2026
Requests must be in writing and be submitted by fax, courier service or postal mail. You may also submit your request via email to foiarequests@dol.gov.
Sep 20, 2026
Recent studies reveal that 25–87% of those who engage in meditation report adverse effects, with 3–37% experiencing functional impairment.
Sep 20, 2026
Quine's indeterminacy of translation and Kuhn's incommensurability are logically distinct yet intellectually related, blurring the line between mere translation difficulty and true incommensurability.
Sep 20, 2026
Quantum mechanics is one of science's most successful theories yet remains profoundly counterintuitive and resists intuitive sense-making.
Sep 20, 2026
Quaker silence is apophatic and has more in common with late medieval mystics such as Meister Eckhart and John Ruysbroeck.
Sep 20, 2026
QAnon has revived fears from the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, borrowing from its playbook and deploying similar folk devils.
Sep 20, 2026
QAnon uses conspiracy theories about child sex traffickers to unleash a modern-day moral panic.
Sep 20, 2026
Punitive discipline, especially isolation and exclusion, can actively re-traumatise children whose earlier experiences involved neglect, loss, or institutionalisation.
Sep 20, 2026
Public stereotypes portray people with mental illness as dangerous, incompetent, to blame for their disorder, and unpredictable.
Sep 20, 2026
Psychological, cultural, and organizational factors drive optimism about emerging military technologies.
Sep 20, 2026
Protecting children from social media is not moral panic; the dangers of addictive platforms are more comparable to smoking than rock music.
Sep 20, 2026
Prosecutorial misconduct is rarely investigated or punished despite clear wrongdoing
Sep 20, 2026
Prosecutor Zabin sought to downplay Mulligan's complicity with Acerra and Robinson, asserting Mulligan's name does not appear on search warrants.
Sep 20, 2026
Prophetic books form a distinct grouping of books within the larger biblical canon
Sep 20, 2026
Primate red coloration is used to signal fertility and rank, suggesting the red-green opponent channel carries an evolutionarily ancient valence that red-white lacks.
Sep 20, 2026
Previous studies reported economic losses of $165-319 billion in lost wages from lead exposure
Sep 20, 2026
Prenatal famine exposure among Leningrad Siege survivors produces fetal programming effects transmitted to descendants, likely via epigenetic mechanisms.
Sep 20, 2026
Poverty traps arise when unanticipated shocks push households past a critical asset threshold, but welfare effects vary with shock magnitude rather than always cascading.
Sep 20, 2026
Poverty impedes cognitive function by reducing mental bandwidth, creating a bidirectional relationship.
Sep 20, 2026
Poverty imposes costs on children's neuroendocrine function, early brain development, and cognitive ability.
Sep 20, 2026
Posthumous dignity is not a right held by the dead but is the reason why the living have duties of respect and protection toward the dead.
Sep 20, 2026
Posthumous dignity is not a right; the dead do not have rights and therefore no right to either posthumous dignity or posthumous respect.
Sep 20, 2026
Positive relationships are characterized by mutual trust, respect, support, and effective communication.
Sep 20, 2026
Place identity did not significantly predict travel intention in home country or hometown models across migrant generations.
Sep 20, 2026
Place identity is a component of self-identity, and place attachment precedes the formation of place identity.
Sep 20, 2026
Place identity is a substructure of the self encompassing cognitions, emotions, and behavioral tendencies related to socialization with one's physical environment.
Sep 20, 2026
Physical affection from relationships reduces anxiety and depression and increases immune system function.
Sep 20, 2026
Philosophers examine whether whiteness is a color at all, distinguishing the physics of spectral reflectance from the perception of color, a divide that determines whether white counts as 'a…
Sep 20, 2026
Philopatric behavior highlights the advantages of remaining within a familiar natal environment in contrast to dispersal into new habitats.
Sep 20, 2026
Perchloroethylene proved more stubborn and could not be completely eradicated using traditional pump-and-treat methods
Sep 20, 2026
Perceived white reflects a response norm that varies with adaptation, and individual differences in perceived white shrink when observers share a common white adapting stimulus — the white point…
Sep 20, 2026
Perceived availability of tangible, belonging, self-esteem, and appraisal support buffers individuals against the negative effects of stressful events.
Sep 20, 2026
People with mental illness are often viewed negatively by the general public, pictured as dangerous, blameworthy and shameful.
Sep 20, 2026
People with good self-control are more likely to save money, have better financial behavior, feel less anxious about finances, and have better subjective financial well-being.
Sep 20, 2026
People on the political right are much more likely than those on the left to view place of birth as very important to national identity in Greece, the UK, and Italy.
Sep 20, 2026
People experiencing cognitive dissonance often avoid or reinterpret contradictory information rather than abandoning their beliefs when confronted with truth.
Sep 20, 2026
People are honest unless they have a reason not to be and believe others unless suspicion is triggered — the very thought of doubt 'does not even come to mind', so trust operates routinely…
Sep 20, 2026
People are substantially less happy when their minds are wandering than when they're not, based on samples from 2,250 adults.
Sep 20, 2026
Paul Scham examines how Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews interpret specific historical events differently.
Sep 20, 2026
Patterson corroborated Ellis's account of going to Walgreens to buy diapers and stopping at the pay phone.
Sep 20, 2026
Pastoralism spread across the Sahara while it was still well-watered, and may have delayed desertification.
Sep 20, 2026
Pastoralism blossomed in the Sahara from around 1000 years before collapse; humans may have held back the Sahara desert by around 500 years.
Sep 20, 2026
Pastoralism itself is argued to enhance devegetation and regime shifts in unbalanced ecosystems, contributing to desertification.
Sep 20, 2026
Participants must be open to welcoming different and even conflicting ideas and perspectives
Sep 20, 2026
Participants proposed that the primary reasons for the lack of reflection were limited time and extensive caseloads.
Sep 20, 2026
Participants across the UK and China showed an implicit association between red and high-status symbols using the IAT, with four different contrast colors.
Sep 20, 2026
Parole stereotypes split along gendered lines, generating stereotyped dichotomies distinct for men versus women
Sep 20, 2026
Parental ethnic-racial socialization (teaching racial pride and how to cope with bias) buffers youth against the psychological harms of ethnic-racial discrimination, qualifying the inevitability…
Sep 20, 2026
Parental exposure to genocide-related trauma is associated with altered caregiving patterns—overprotection, controlling behavior, diminished warmth—affecting subsequent generations.
Sep 20, 2026
Panic, irrationality, and herding are three ambiguous terms in crowd dynamics research, challenging mindlessness assumptions.
Sep 20, 2026
Palestinian and Israeli authors examine opposing versions of historical narratives in dialogue.
Sep 20, 2026
Overly self-aware individuals without self-compassion become overly sensitive to life's challenges, taking them personally.
Sep 20, 2026
Overly optimistic judgments are not limited to military operations, and America's military has no preordained right to victory.
Sep 20, 2026
Overestimates of social media addiction are common and contribute to moral panic around social media use.
Sep 20, 2026
Our capabilities are better. Our will is better. Our troops are better.
Sep 20, 2026
Orientalist narratives depicting Islam as alien, violent, and inferior have deep historical roots and directly fuel the irrational fear, stereotypes, and dehumanization driving Islamophobia.
Sep 20, 2026
Opponent channels must be calibrated to the average color of the scene (von Kries adaptation), which discounts illuminant changes and is an initial component of color constancy.
Sep 20, 2026
Only 60 ships are known to have reached Spain, many of them too badly damaged to be repaired, and perhaps 15,000 men perished.
Sep 20, 2026
One's attachment history serves as a foundation for identity formation, which is a co-construction with significant others rather than a solo accomplishment.
Sep 20, 2026
On the night of 7 August, English fireships broke the Spanish formation, and Medina Sidonia's ships 'scattered in a...'
Sep 20, 2026
On April 29, 1587, the English fleet sailed into the harbor of Cádiz, attacking anchored ships, seizing cargo, and setting the ships on fire.
Sep 20, 2026
Odyssey is from Latin Odyssea, Greek Odysseia, the epic poem naming Odysseus's ten-year wanderings
Sep 20, 2026
OHCHR found allegations of torture and ill-treatment credible, as were allegations of individual incidents of sexual and gender-based violence, likely constituting crimes against humanity.
Sep 20, 2026
Nuremberg prosecutors deliberately prioritized documentary evidence over witness testimony as more reliable
Sep 20, 2026
Nothing must have no properties, so the concept of nothing is self-defeating for existence.
Sep 20, 2026
Not all legal regulations regarding treatment of human corpses are spelled out in the language of dignity; some offenses express special disrespect against the deceased
Sep 20, 2026
Nomads who roamed the Sahara millennia ago were the first to domesticate cattle.
Sep 20, 2026
No Spanish ship was lost other than the eight fire ships; the fireships' main effect was forcing the Spanish to scatter.
Sep 20, 2026
No Spanish ships were burnt, but the crescent formation had been broken, and the fleet found itself too far leeward of Calais in the rising southwesterly wind.
Sep 20, 2026
Ninety-five percent of adults with self-reported normal hearing perceived tinnitus-like sounds when placed in an anechoic (fully silent) chamber.
Sep 20, 2026
Newton subscribed to the doctrine that physical objects do not actually have the colors we ordinarily take them to possess, treating color as a sensation rather than a property of objects.
Sep 20, 2026
Newton states 'Whiteness and all grey Colours between white and black, may be compounded of Colours, and the whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded of all the primary Colours mixt in a due…
Sep 20, 2026
Newcomers who display affective attachment are likely to develop a sense of belonging and identification that increases task involvement.
Sep 20, 2026
New mysterianism proposes that the hard problem of consciousness cannot be resolved by humans.
Sep 20, 2026
New barrels acquired for the fleet's food-stores were still quite damp from being made, and these damp barrels quickly rotted out the food and water for the entirety of the Spanish fleet.
Sep 20, 2026
Nearly a quarter (23.8%) of fifth graders sometimes or always felt unsafe at school, citing teasing and bullying that typically occurred when adults were absent.
Sep 20, 2026
Much of the Spanish fleet assembling in the Bay of Cádiz was destroyed and substantial supplies destroyed or captured, delaying Armada preparations by a year.
Sep 20, 2026
Most people are more inclined to trust people they know than to trust remote expertise or an abstract system, so contemporary life demands trust in science they cannot personally verify.
Sep 20, 2026
Most diversity training programs do not lead to long-term improvements in participants' bias, attitudes, behavior, or workforce diversity.
Sep 20, 2026
Morton Salt began nationwide distribution of iodized salt in 1924, raising IQ in previously iodine-deficient areas and improving economic outcomes.
Sep 20, 2026
Morton Salt began nationwide iodized salt distribution in 1924; access to iodine, a key determinant of cognitive ability, rose sharply.
Sep 20, 2026
More than 40% of elementary children who experienced peer victimization showed clinically significant trauma symptoms, with effects persisting over six months.
Sep 20, 2026
More than 116,000 Native American human remains still held in museums and collections
Sep 20, 2026
More than 13,500 Armada sailors and soldiers did not come home, the vast majority victims not of English cannon fire but of lack of food and water, virulent disease and incompetent organisation.
Sep 20, 2026
Morale influences combat power based on the military and their will, consisting of persuading the armed forces.
Sep 20, 2026
Moral panics reflect deeper social tensions rather than real threats.
Sep 20, 2026
Moral panics direct outrage at a single easily identified target when the real problems have more complex roots.
Sep 20, 2026
Moral panics are characterized by an exaggerated, stylized folk devil perceived as threatening the social order, which attracts public hostility.
Sep 20, 2026
Moral panics arise from cultural strains caused by social change and serve as mechanisms of social control reinforcing existing power dynamics.
Sep 20, 2026
Moral panic concepts can be applied to public health debates around addictive design.
Sep 20, 2026
Moral panic is a social phenomenon where a group is portrayed as a significant threat to societal values, resulting in heightened fear and the push for new legislation.
Sep 20, 2026
Moral panic is a widespread fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values of a community, first theorized by Stanley Cohen in 1972.
Sep 20, 2026
Moral communication is not inherently dysfunctional under Luhmann's systems theory but needs semantic forms that take account of the emergent properties of economic and other social systems, and…
Sep 20, 2026
Moral and philosophical conceptions of dignity hold that a human being is entitled to ethical treatment in all phases of life and even through death.
Sep 20, 2026
Money scripts are unconscious childhood beliefs about finances that drive adult financial behavior through encoded fear and shame.
Sep 20, 2026
Money scripts — typically unconscious beliefs about money — are significantly associated with problematic financial behaviors including compulsive buying, hoarding, and financial denial.
Sep 20, 2026
Money habits and beliefs are neural pathways wired by trauma and attachment styles.
Sep 20, 2026
Modern warfare's destruction of landscapes reveals a broken relationship between humanity and environment
Sep 20, 2026
Modern cattle breeds descended from multiple independent domestication events of the wild aurochs.
Sep 20, 2026
Minnesota requires that all public agencies designate an official records custodian in order to manage records requests.
Sep 20, 2026
Mindlessness can play a causal role in the development of psychological disorders like GAD and panic disorder.
Sep 20, 2026
Mindlessness leads to habitual or auto-pilot consumption behaviors where individuals fail to focus on the present moment.
Sep 20, 2026
Mindlessness leads to locking all agency we can have over our thoughts and eventually physical health.
Sep 20, 2026
Mind-wandering is an excellent predictor of people's happiness; a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.
Sep 20, 2026
Mindful awareness has been defined as the capacity for acting with present-centered awareness rather than on 'automatic pilot' or being lost.
Sep 20, 2026
Middle Nile evidence suggests independent origins of cattle in Africa 10,000 years ago.
Sep 20, 2026
Michael Cohen said he tried to 'rig' online polls including one by CNBC at Trump's direction.
Sep 20, 2026
Michael Cohen testified that he paid a tech firm to boost Trump's performance in a CNBC online poll.
Sep 20, 2026
Michael Cohen hired RedFinch Solutions to rig online polls and then allegedly stiffed the company.
Sep 20, 2026
Mentions of gazpacho are found in Carmen, Mérimée's letters, and Gautier's writings
Sep 20, 2026
Mental budgeting influences financial behaviors and financial stability, with self-control moderating these relationships.
Sep 20, 2026
Men from the lowest-iodine areas born in 1924 or later had an average IQ that was 15 points higher than their predecessors.
Sep 20, 2026
Meditation practice in MBPs is associated with transient distress and negative impacts at similar rates to other psychological treatments.
Sep 20, 2026
Meditation and mindfulness, widely perceived as stress-reduction techniques, can also have adverse effects.
Sep 20, 2026
Marxist theory provides a critical framework for analyzing class struggle's influence on cultural practices
Sep 20, 2026
Many historians trace the structural distortions of Islam represented by modern Islamophobia to medieval Europe, and aversive portrayals emerged nearly as early as Islam itself.
Sep 20, 2026
Mainland Chinese participants associate red with up and green with down, while Hong Kong Chinese associate green with up and red with down, showing culturally specific environmental cues shape…
Sep 20, 2026
MZ twins correlate at ~.85 for IQ versus .55 for DZ twins, giving heritability estimates of 50–80% in adults, with heritability rising from childhood to adulthood.
Sep 20, 2026
MGDPA and FOIA are similar but distinct laws that provide access to government data.
Sep 20, 2026
Luhmann reformulates sociology by developing a comprehensive unified theory in which trust is a mechanism for reducing social complexity.
Sep 20, 2026
Low- and high-hookworm areas may have differed in other respects like crops grown, suitability for slavery, wealth and education, undermining geographic natural-experiment identification strategies.
Sep 20, 2026
Lewontin's corn thought experiment shows within-group phenotypic variation can be genetic while between-group variation is environmental, since within-group heritability is irrelevant for…
Sep 20, 2026
Less than 15 minutes into Costello's testimony, the typically even-tempered judge appeared fed up with Costello's behavior and sent the jury out.
Sep 20, 2026
Lead was a widely distributed developmental neurotoxicant with unknown but likely substantial consequences for population-level IQ.
Sep 20, 2026
Leaded gasoline exposure cost Americans born before 1996 an estimated 824 million IQ points, averaging 2.6 points per person, much smaller than iodization's claimed 15-point gap-closing effect.
Sep 20, 2026
Large positive and negative trends in cohort IQ operate within as well as across families, implying at most a minor role for genes, with environment as the main driver.
Sep 20, 2026
Kuhn's initial concept of incommensurability attracted heavy criticism, leading him to shift focus toward untranslatability and unmappability of scientific terms across traditions.
Sep 20, 2026
Kumar characterizes anti-Muslim racism as an 'ideology and practice rooted in the political economy of the empire' (p. 7), distancing it from religious intolerance.
Sep 20, 2026
Kumar contends that empire creates the conditions for anti-Muslim racism, which in turn sustains empire.
Sep 20, 2026
Krizhevsky spent the next year constantly tweaking parameters and retraining the network
Sep 20, 2026
Knowing they will be well-cared for in case of injury should improve morale and the will of soldiers to follow orders and fight.
Sep 20, 2026
Keeping settlement details private helps prevent public perception from equating settlement with guilt
Sep 20, 2026
Judge Ball overturned Ellis's convictions ruling that due to police corruption and prosecutors' misconduct, 'justice was not done.'
Sep 20, 2026
Judge Juan M. Merchan told Robert Costello, slashed to $50,000 from. Cohen claimed to have paid $50,000 to a technology firm.
Sep 20, 2026
Judge Juan Merchan asked the jurors to leave the courtroom so he could admonish Costello over his behavior on the stand.
Sep 20, 2026
Judge Merchan accused Costello of exhibiting 'contemptuous' conduct and threatened to remove him from the stand if he tried to stare him down again.
Sep 20, 2026
Judge Merchan briefly booted the public after scolding defense witness Robert Costello.
Sep 20, 2026
Judge Merchan said 'Sir, your conduct is contemptuous right now' and cleared the courtroom to admonish Costello.
Sep 20, 2026
Judge Ball disagreed with Prosecutor Linn's assertion that Acerra and Robinson's acknowledged crimes had nothing to do with the Mulligan murder investigation.
Sep 20, 2026
Jock Young pioneered the concept in 1971, rejected it by 1980, and began using it again from the late 1990s
Sep 20, 2026
Jewish exceptionalism stems from valuing education and literacy, not superiority.
Sep 20, 2026
It was bad luck, bad tactics and bad weather that defeated the Spanish Armada—not the derring-do displayed by Elizabeth's intrepid sea dogs.
Sep 20, 2026
It was the first book to define the social theory of moral panic.
Sep 20, 2026
It is usually assumed that agreement on core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will settle the problem.
Sep 20, 2026
It took prosecutors three trials to convict Sean Ellis for Det. John Mulligan's murder; Terry Patterson was swiftly convicted in February 1995.
Sep 20, 2026
Israel increasingly resembles the Crusaders in both method — perpetual war — and aspirations.
Sep 20, 2026
Israel is often compared to the Crusader kingdom as a settlement project of fanatical Europeans in the Muslim East.
Sep 20, 2026
Israel began to be seen by its Arab neighbours as a national mutation of modern crusaders coming from the West to create a 'Europe overseas.'
Sep 20, 2026
Islamophobia is rooted in imperialism and Orientalism; Western conceptions of Muslims as inferior beings arose when European nations were positioned to dominate once-powerful Muslim empires.
Sep 20, 2026
Islamophobia is an ideology tied to practices sustaining and reproducing the American empire, which was established through the demonization of Arabs and later Muslims.
Sep 20, 2026
Islamophobia is a lay ideology that disavows events' political meanings rooted in empire, racism, and resistance, displacing political antagonisms onto the plane of culture.
Sep 20, 2026
Islamophobia has been present in Western discourse since the Middle Ages, when negative stereotypes about Muslims helped build support for the Crusades and rationalized European colonial domination.
Sep 20, 2026
Iodine played a substantial role in cognitive improvements across the American population in the 20th century.
Sep 20, 2026
Iodized salt raised IQs by a full standard deviation (15 points) in iodine-deficient areas, and may explain a decade's worth of the Flynn effect.
Sep 20, 2026
Iodine deficiency impairs brain development in children even without obvious physical effects like goiter, and even relatively low fetal deficiency can significantly reduce IQ.
Sep 20, 2026
Iodine deficiency results in a global loss of 10-15 IQ points at a population level and is the world's greatest single cause of preventable brain damage.
Sep 20, 2026
Introduction of iodized salt increased IQ by approximately 15 points for those most deficient in iodine.
Sep 20, 2026
Interviews found retraining cadences ranged from hourly to every few months, varying across models
Sep 20, 2026
Interviewees report that disclosing long-held family secrets has caused families to completely shatter and relationships to crumble instantly.
Sep 20, 2026
Intent-alignment doesn't specify whose intentions matter, leaving trade-off conflicts unresolved
Sep 20, 2026
Intended goals reflect human operator desires even if poorly articulated, functioning as ideal 'wishes'
Sep 20, 2026
Infant attachment to caregivers forms the foundation for later self-concept and identity development.
Sep 20, 2026
Individuals with social anxiety disorder show important alterations in self-consciousness alongside fear of social situations.
Sep 20, 2026
Individual and semi-social approaches to repairing public trust in science overburden citizens and overidealize science, so solutions must target the social and institutional dimensions of trust…
Sep 20, 2026
India's Universal Salt Iodization program had larger effects on cognitive skills for children near the major salt-producing state than for those further away, consistent with heterogeneous…
Sep 20, 2026
Increasing human population and sustainable pastoralism did not accelerate—and may even have delayed—the decline of the Green Sahara.
Sep 20, 2026
Increases in trauma exposure marginally predicted higher use of approach coping the following year, suggesting individuals adopt new adaptive strategies after trauma.
Sep 20, 2026
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it physically is, making color the most relative medium in art.
Sep 20, 2026
In the Clark doll studies, a majority of Black children ages 3-7 preferred the White doll and rejected the Black doll, evidencing internalized inferiority from institutionalized racism.
Sep 20, 2026
In the 1980s, archaeologists began to argue that inhabitants of northeastern Africa had domesticated cattle independently some 10,000 years ago.
Sep 20, 2026
In the 'When Prophecy Fails' study, disconfirming truth did not shatter belief but instead made heavily invested believers more committed, not less.
Sep 20, 2026
In populations with severe endemic iodine deficiency, mild mental impairment occurs five times as frequently as cretinism, shifting the population IQ curve 10 points to the left.
Sep 20, 2026
In low-iodine counties, the probability of assignment to the Air Forces rose significantly after the introduction of iodized salt.
Sep 20, 2026
In his study, the folk devils were the violent youth subcultures, 'mods and rockers'. The creation of folk devils can kickstart a moral panic.
Sep 20, 2026
In early Greek culture, myth was the dominant framework for understanding natural events before Pre-Socratic philosophers.
Sep 20, 2026
In colonial America, the right to petition required governmental hearing and response.
Sep 20, 2026
In any consistent formal system within which a certain amount of arithmetic can be carried out, there are statements which can neither be proved nor disproved.
Sep 20, 2026
In Western cultures, white is associated with weddings, hospitals, and angels and conveys purity, cleanliness, and peacefulness, and is defined as the lightest color and achromatic (having no hue).
Sep 20, 2026
In Western cultures and Japan, white is the color most associated with perfection, goodness, cleanliness, purity, and virginity — not inferiority — and white is achromatic (having no chroma).
Sep 20, 2026
In Luhmann's framework, systemic trust is the general belief that societal systems function reliably, functioning as a mechanism that reduces complexity and enables smooth social interaction, and…
Sep 20, 2026
In Giddens, systems obtain a 'face' at their 'access points,' which sustains or transforms 'faceless commitments' through the interplay of disembedding and re-embedding.
Sep 20, 2026
Improper argument is a common form of prosecutorial misconduct that often goes unremedied and can prejudice the defendant.
Sep 20, 2026
Implicit bias training could achieve the goal of modifying health care workers' thoughts and reducing negative behaviors.
Sep 20, 2026
Implicit bias trainings in health care are characterized by bias in methodological quality and translational gaps, potentially compromising their impacts.
Sep 20, 2026
Implicit associations reflected in the IAT are influenced by societal messages, life experiences, context, and other environmental factors.
Sep 20, 2026
Immigrants do not shed their former identity or cultural attachment with their home country despite expectations they develop local identity and belonging.
Sep 20, 2026
If a new elephant matriarch lacks the accumulated experience of extreme droughts or floods, the whole family could be in trouble.
Sep 20, 2026
If a truth depends on more truths than the knower can know, it is accidentally unknowable, not inherently so.
Sep 20, 2026
Identification is socially motivated identity-building, whereas attachment is a more personally motivated bond based on security and personal history.
Sep 20, 2026
Ibrahim's smaller army thoroughly routed the larger Ottoman force under Reshid Mehmed Pasha at Konya, capturing the grand vizier.
Sep 20, 2026
Ibrahim gave effective support to the Frenchman Colonel Sève (Suleiman Pasha), who was employed to drill the army on the European model, and set an example by submitting to be drilled as a…
Sep 20, 2026
IQ has risen across generations worldwide, and the effect must be environmental since genetic mutation could not act that fast, amounting to about 15 IQ points per generation on fluid tests.
Sep 20, 2026
IQ predicts job performance, academic achievement, and mortality better than any known psychological factor
Sep 20, 2026
IQ test results strongly predict income, education, health, and longevity, though weaker for individuals
Sep 20, 2026
IATs lack psychometric evidence of construct validity; at best 36% of variance in a single IAT may reflect implicit attitudes, and the proportion could be 0.
Sep 20, 2026
IAT scores can be changed by the ambiguous attribute response labels of an unrelated preceding mindset task, so observed change may reflect the measure rather than the attitude.
Sep 20, 2026
IAT scores fluctuate with one's current context and are better measures of biases held by places than biases held within minds.
Sep 20, 2026
I drive places on 'automatic pilot' and then wonder why I went there — a common experience of absent-minded automaticity.
Sep 20, 2026
Humans, like every other animal, are not smart enough to understand all of nature's laws, and unknowable unknowns may vastly exceed what we can ever know.
Sep 20, 2026
Humans form associations between white and positive valence versus black and negative valence; cross-cultural implicit testing showed Western and Chinese groups did not differ in their red-white…
Sep 20, 2026
Human remains hold a certain sacredness and professional ethics and law (NAGPRA) require they be treated with dignity and respect regardless of the deceased's ability to hold rights.
Sep 20, 2026
Human knowledge is limited and cannot answer why the universe exists or the purpose of life.
Sep 20, 2026
Human Rights Watch documented crimes against humanity in Xinjiang camps including imprisonment, torture, murder, enforced disappearance, and alleged inhumane acts including forced labor and sexual…
Sep 20, 2026
Households lacking emergency reserves see modest income shocks trigger cascading defaults, with children pulled from school during crises rarely returning even when conditions improve.
Sep 20, 2026
Hospitals treating patients in hallways and converted conference rooms due to heightened demand
Sep 20, 2026
Hoggart's work resembles ethnographic techniques such as participant observation to provide an insider view
Sep 20, 2026
High values on the bullying victim scale are accompanied by higher school displeasure (anxiety), and school displeasure is associated with significantly more days of absence from school.
Sep 20, 2026
High heritability of individual differences and large environmental effects on population-level IQ are mathematically compatible under a reciprocal gene-environment coupling model (Dickens & Flynn).
Sep 20, 2026
Hegseth invoked 'Our capabilities are better. Our will is better. Our troops are better' alongside divine providence in a Pentagon context.
Sep 20, 2026
Hegseth's assessments regarding the conflict with Iran were 'overly optimistic' and did not reflect battlefield realities.
Sep 20, 2026
Healthcare professionals working diligently in a hospital corridor filled with medical equipment and patients
Sep 20, 2026
Head Start effects persisted more for students who later attended better-funded K–12 schools, suggesting sustained enrichment rather than one-time intervention sustains gains.
Sep 20, 2026
Harmful psychological treatments are damaging and cause worse outcomes than would have occurred without treatment.
Sep 20, 2026
Han, Olson, and Fazio established that the attribute response labels typically employed in the IAT contribute to the malleability of the IAT, clouding inferences about attitude change.
Sep 20, 2026
Half of emigrants developed a sense of belonging to their host society, with language competence important for later identification processes.
Sep 20, 2026
HRW's report documents imprisonment, torture, murder, enforced disappearance, forced labor, and sexual violence against Turkic Muslims constituting crimes against humanity.
Sep 20, 2026
HRW's report documents that the Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, including mass detention, torture, enforced disappearance, forced…
Sep 20, 2026
HRW presented new evidence of mass arbitrary detention, torture (beatings, hangings from ceilings, sleep deprivation, shackling), deaths in camps, and mistreatment of Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang.
Sep 20, 2026
HRW reported Uyghurs suffering systematic torture and cruel treatment including rape, sexual abuse and public humiliation, and cited at least 177 deaths in detention in Xinjiang.
Sep 20, 2026
Groundwater contamination persists despite decades of remediation due to back diffusion from low-conductivity zones
Sep 20, 2026
Greater adverse childhood experiences and childhood trauma were positively correlated with impulsive spending.
Sep 20, 2026
Google claimed to have 'fixed' the issue by simply removing the auto-tag term 'Gorilla'
Sep 20, 2026
Gin joints allowed women to drink alongside men for the first time, leading many to child neglect and prostitution.
Sep 20, 2026
Giddens distinguishes 'facework commitment' from 'faceless commitment' to depict the difference between expert systems and their representatives, with trust located between the two.
Sep 20, 2026
Giddens describes how trust in abstract systems develops as 'faceless commitments,' yet notes relations of trust are always ambivalent because confidence is needed amid fundamental ignorance of…
Sep 20, 2026
Giddens defines trust as confidence in the reliability of a person or system expressing faith in the probity or love of another or in the correctness of abstract principles, and notes all trust is…
Sep 20, 2026
Genetic factors are often responsible for variation within populations, while environmental factors are usually responsible for variation between populations, per Rose's causes-of-cases vs…
Sep 20, 2026
Genetics is unlikely to be a major contributor to explaining mean differences in height across populations and changes in height over time, despite height's heritability.
Sep 20, 2026
Gautier presents the Spain that matches his expectations, from garlic soup to bullfights
Sep 20, 2026
Fuelling moral panics and creating folk devils are blunt public health tools with potential for consequences that bludgeon the vulnerable.
Sep 20, 2026
Founders disagreed sharply on the West; Federalists like Hamilton opposed westward expansion
Sep 20, 2026
For the quarter of the population most deficient in iodine, salt iodization raised IQ by approximately one standard deviation, explaining roughly a decade's worth of the Flynn Effect.
Sep 20, 2026
For Picard, silence is not an absence of sound or a void, but has substance and its own reality — silence has Being.
Sep 20, 2026
For Israelis, the Crusader story is a negative myth characterized by silence, evasion, and alarm, never discussed for fear of weakening.
Sep 20, 2026
For Fanon the point of the sociogenic principle is to reveal the artificiality of the Black-white binary, which has no meaning outside the system of racial-colonial rule that births it.
Sep 20, 2026
Folk Devils and Moral Panics is a 1972 sociology book by Stanley Cohen — the first book to define the social concept.
Sep 20, 2026
First coined by Jock Young (1971) and, later, Stanley Cohen (1972)
Sep 20, 2026
Financial habits often reflect deeper emotional struggles, like feelings of betrayal, neglect, or unmet needs.
Sep 20, 2026
Fifty-one UN member countries issued a joint declaration condemning China's crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic communities, citing the UN report.
Sep 20, 2026
Feminist standpoint theory rejects classical elements of scientific objectivity such as neutrality and impartiality.
Sep 20, 2026
Fears of satanic worship spread across the United States in the 1980s, fueled by public accusations against heavy metal albums, Dungeons & Dragons, and day care workers.
Sep 20, 2026
Fanon's sociogenesis holds that the mental illness of the colonized subject is not caused by biological factors but by the subject's alienation by the racial ideologies of colonial modernity.
Sep 20, 2026
Fanon's sociogenic account holds that it is never merely the individual who is mentally ill but the pathological society of which they are part.
Sep 20, 2026
Fanon's theory of the 'sociogenesis' of mental illness critically absorbs Lévi-Strauss's examination of the link between madness and the symbolic structure of society.
Sep 20, 2026
Fanon's idea of sociogeny explains that human distress is shaped by social and economic conditions, challenging approaches that isolate problems within the individual, with distress often a…
Sep 20, 2026
Fanon's original text reads 'A normal Negro child, having grown up within a normal family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact with the white world,' followed by his own hedge, 'This…
Sep 20, 2026
Fanon reads Freud as holding that a normal child in a normal family becomes a normal adult, then argues this developmental model does not apply in the colonial context.
Sep 20, 2026
Fanon developed sociogeny to articulate how socially produced phenomena come to be seen as natural or ontogenetic predispositions of particular population groups.
Sep 20, 2026
Exposure to severe adversity can disrupt early brain development and derail formation of secure attachments; early trauma is fundamentally developmental and relational.
Sep 20, 2026
Existing research shows positive associations between humility and well-being, and between civic engagement and well-being.
Sep 20, 2026
Excessive optimism contributed to an inability to accurately assess Afghan forces during the war.
Sep 20, 2026
Evidence of association between self-consciousness and self-awareness was stronger for the awareness subscale in a positive correlation with affective outcomes.
Sep 20, 2026
Everyday attention lapses and memory failures have affective consequences of mindlessness.
Sep 20, 2026
Every moment spent in unconscious autopilot is a moment of reduced effectiveness, increased time waste, and missed opportunities.
Sep 20, 2026
Even without immediate traces of routinization, moral panics create cognitive deposits and memories that may make the next panic have longer-lasting effects; thus no moral panic should be…
Sep 20, 2026
Even if a specific moral panic does not seem to leave immediate traces of routinization, its very happening may leave memories and cognitive deposits.
Sep 20, 2026
Even after the delay, many of the Armada's barrels were made of green, half-seasoned wood, which split, cracked, and leaked.
Sep 20, 2026
European colonization triggered demographic collapse and forced removal that shattered existing Indigenous societies
Sep 20, 2026
Eugenia de Montijo introduced gazpacho recipe to France in the nineteenth century
Sep 20, 2026
Environmental exposures such as air pollution can produce psychopathology through neuroinflammation and oxidative stress — environmental trauma not rooted in early maltreatment.
Sep 20, 2026
Engaging in critical self-reflection entails social workers continuously reflecting on ways their own biases affect practice.
Sep 20, 2026
Emotional support is an important protective factor for dealing with life's difficulties.
Sep 20, 2026
Ellis told police he called Harriet Griffith, gave them Patterson's pager number, purchased diapers, and denied involvement in Mulligan's murder.
Sep 20, 2026
Eight years on, Google Photos hasn't fixed anything, it just blocked gorilla recognition entirely
Sep 20, 2026
Edward Said's Orientalism is considered one of the foundational texts for the study of Islamophobia, describing how Western imperial projects crafted a dehumanizing representation of 'the Arab'.
Sep 20, 2026
Early trauma-informed work created a narrow vision of trauma that ignored cultural and systemic adversity, and most glaringly ignored the trauma imposed by schools and teachers themselves.
Sep 20, 2026
Early cattle remains from Nabta Playa were wild hunted aurochs, whilst domesticated cattle were introduced to northeast Africa in the late 7th millennium BC.
Sep 20, 2026
Du Bois described the Negro as 'born with a veil... always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.'
Sep 20, 2026
Drake's raid on Cádiz in April 1587 destroyed roughly 30 ships and large quantities of supplies, setting Spanish Armada preparations back by a year.
Sep 20, 2026
Drake's raid postponed the invasion from winter 1587 to 1588, and the resulting shortage of seasoned wood for barrel staves meant supplies of food and water went off.
Sep 20, 2026
Drake's 1587 raid destroyed thousands of barrel staves essential for storage barrels, which would later affect the Spanish Armada of 1588 due to a shortage of food and drink.
Sep 20, 2026
Drake reported burning 16-17 hundred hoops and pipe-staves that would have made 25-30 thousand tons of casks, forcing Spain a year later to supply the Armada's food under that loss.
Sep 20, 2026
Drake sailed into Cadiz destroying Spanish ships, and a huge stock of barrels was burned that were intended to transport stores, whose loss would affect essential food and water supplies for the…
Sep 20, 2026
Drake quickly formed his four great galleons, each English ship firing a full broadside as she passed.
Sep 20, 2026
Documents, photographs, film, and eyewitness testimonies together provide undeniable documentation of the Holocaust
Sep 20, 2026
Disease-reduction interventions like vaccination and clean water could raise national IQ scores
Sep 20, 2026
Discourse shaped by the contemporary Israel-Palestine conflict serves as a framework for modern historiography of the Crusades.
Sep 20, 2026
Discourse about Internet addiction and video-game-related suicide in China exemplifies a moral panic framed through cultural and historical narratives.
Sep 20, 2026
Digital communication technologies have fundamentally changed public communication, reshaping perception of space and interaction
Sep 20, 2026
Dialogic interactions create open, critical, constructive spaces for negotiating differing ideas toward consensus
Sep 20, 2026
Dialogic approaches view human systems as riddled with tensionality requiring articulation of constituting tensions
Sep 20, 2026
Detectives Acerra and Robinson pleaded guilty in 1998 to federal charges, receiving prison sentences and fines.
Sep 20, 2026
Denial operates unconsciously and is only effective as protection while it remains outside conscious awareness; once confronted, the defense fails.
Sep 20, 2026
Denial temporarily shields people from unbearable truth like a cast on a broken limb, but this protective peace is fragile if left unaddressed.
Sep 20, 2026
Dehumanizing portrayals can lead victims to be seen as less capable of suffering and less deserving of humane treatment.
Sep 20, 2026
Dehumanization redefines targets as less human, using terms like 'animals' and 'vermin' to get people to accept or engage in atrocities.
Sep 20, 2026
Dehumanizers make targets appear deserving of abuse and never entitled to humane social treatment.
Sep 20, 2026
Dehumanization causes perpetrators to perceive victims as nonhuman and therefore not entitled to moral obligation
Sep 20, 2026
Dehumanization entails exclusion from the moral category of human, leaving persons vulnerable to harm with no moral consideration given to their experiences.
Sep 20, 2026
Dehumanising language and policy causes a ripple effect feeding through acts of violence and torture by state actors
Sep 20, 2026
David Ohana demonstrates Zionism's inability to convince itself of its own claims through his analysis of the Zionist-Crusader analogy.
Sep 20, 2026
David Ohana's book 'The Origins of Israeli Mythology' argues Israelis are neither Canaanites nor Crusaders, rejecting the comparison.
Sep 20, 2026
Darker skin tones are systematically underexposed compared to lighter skin under identical lighting conditions
Sep 20, 2026
DNAPL contaminants like TCE can be expected to persist for decades or even centuries
Sep 20, 2026
Current Pentagon rhetoric is overly optimistic and risks misinforming both the public and the president.
Sep 20, 2026
Cultural transmission internalises the values, norms, and beliefs that hold society together, revealing how shared ideas shape behavior across time and place.
Sep 20, 2026
Cultural isolation and lack of reflection can also lead to impaired self-awareness in culturally competent supervision.
Sep 20, 2026
Cultural humility is a process of self-reflection and discovery in order to build honest and trustworthy relationships.
Sep 20, 2026
Cultural humility means admitting that one does not know and is willing to learn from patients about their experiences, while being aware of one's own biases.
Sep 20, 2026
Cultural humility might attenuate the effects of intolerant, anti-egalitarian ideologies such as social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism.
Sep 20, 2026
Cultural humility requires openness, self-awareness, self-critique, self-reflection, and rejection of ego on the part of teachers.
Sep 20, 2026
Cross-lagged panel data show organizational identification is a precursor to affective commitment, confirming identification's antecedence over attachment.
Sep 20, 2026
Courts won't punish or reward either side based on moral fault like affairs
Sep 20, 2026
Courts admit the paradoxical nature of the right to remain silent, since an individual must verbalize their invocation of that right.
Sep 20, 2026
Count-based and prediction-based methods are not fundamentally different, as both exploit the co-occurrence matrix
Sep 20, 2026
Costello's fiery testimony made aspects of the prosecutors' case even 'stronger than it was,' according to a retired state judge.
Sep 20, 2026
Contrary to the view that silence perception is merely the cognitive accompaniment of an absence of experience, perceptual systems can track events with no positive sensory content.
Sep 20, 2026
Context-predicting models obtain a thorough and resounding victory against count-based counterparts
Sep 20, 2026
Consciousness presents a 'hard problem' to scholars — how the physical body gives rise to subjective experience.
Sep 20, 2026
Consciousness is a phenomenon that is widely considered amenable to scientific investigation.
Sep 20, 2026
Conscious experience in humans depends on brain activity, so neuroscience will contribute to explaining consciousness.
Sep 20, 2026
Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Sep 20, 2026
Congress recognized that human remains of any ancestry 'must at all times be treated with dignity and respect.'
Sep 20, 2026
Concerns regarding addictive design have been explicitly articulated at the political level, including in EU resolutions.
Sep 20, 2026
Concealing certain truths can serve an adaptive, protective function for family stability rather than being merely a fragile illusion.
Sep 20, 2026
Common mycorrhizal networks act as a pathway to elicit defense responses in healthy receiver plants connected to pathogen-infected donors.
Sep 20, 2026
Common objectives of training are to improve HCW awareness, recognition, and management of implicit bias through critical reflection.
Sep 20, 2026
Colors are not properties of objects but of perceptual processes, and one proposal identifies them with physical 'spectral surface reflectance.'
Sep 20, 2026
Collapse is multicausal and rarely abrupt
Sep 20, 2026
Collaborative thought is qualitatively different from individual writing and critical-dialogical engagement deepens understanding
Sep 20, 2026
Cohen pocketed $30,000 of the $50,000 he received from the tech company RedFinch.
Sep 20, 2026
Cohen suggested that the term panic in itself connotes irrationality and a lack of control.
Sep 20, 2026
Cohen (1972, p. 9) defined moral panic as a condition where a group emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests, presented in a stylized way by mass media.
Sep 20, 2026
Cohen claimed to have paid $50,000 to a technology firm for artificially boosting Trump's standing in a CNBC online poll.
Sep 20, 2026
Cohen documented moral panics as sudden threats or disorders involving mass hysteria, delusion, and panic.
Sep 20, 2026
Cohen maintained that panic is a suitable term when used as an extended metaphor.
Sep 20, 2026
Cognitive factors like financial literacy, mental budgeting, and self-control influence subjective financial well-being.
Sep 20, 2026
Claiming we may never fully understand phenomena differs from claiming they can never be explained physically, and the explanatory gap is narrowing daily.
Sep 20, 2026
Chinese speakers employ a robust red-for-love metaphor grounded in universal color-emotion mappings reinforced by cultural practices.
Sep 20, 2026
China dismissed the U.N. assessment of 'crimes against humanity' as a 'patchwork of false information' and a political tool of Western nations.
Sep 20, 2026
Children often experience trauma through ongoing early exposure to abuse, neglect, homelessness or domestic violence, which schools then must detect and respond to in the classroom.
Sep 20, 2026
Children born during the Great Depression experienced differing developmental outcomes depending on cohort and family economic circumstances, showing historical timing shapes adult trajectories.
Sep 20, 2026
Childhood trauma is typically rooted in early development and maltreatment, with the school's role understood mainly as responding to trauma that predates schooling.
Sep 20, 2026
Childhood financial instability is a particularly potent source of financial trauma, shaping money beliefs and behaviors into adulthood.
Sep 20, 2026
Changes in childhood lead exposure are responsible for a 56% drop in violent crime in the 1990s, via effects on impulsivity, aggression, and IQ.
Sep 20, 2026
Certain philosophical problems like the mind–body problem may be fundamentally unknowable by humans due to cognitive closure.
Sep 20, 2026
Certain staple foods were never rationed, including bread, potatoes, fruit, vegetables, and fish
Sep 20, 2026
Cattle arrived in Africa in 6000 BCE from the Middle East, not from independent domestication in the Sahara.
Sep 20, 2026
Cattle could have been domesticated independently in Africa at the same time as in the Middle East, around 10,000 years ago.
Sep 20, 2026
Categorizing one's enemy as sub-human legitimizes increased violence and justifies violation of basic human rights.
Sep 20, 2026
Caracalla granted citizenship to nearly all free inhabitants except the small group of dediticii
Sep 20, 2026
Caracalla made all people in his empire Roman citizens mainly to increase tax revenues
Sep 20, 2026
Cage's philosophy of silence developed toward recognition of its positive quality as a substantive presence rather than mere negation.
Sep 20, 2026
Cage's silence turns out to be not an absence of sound but an opening to unintended yet palpable sounds that saturate our perceptual field.
Sep 20, 2026
CMNs act as a pathway to elicit defense responses in healthy receiver plants connected to pathogen-infected donors.
Sep 20, 2026
By the time the last surviving ships reached Spain in October, half the original Armada was lost and some 15,000 men had perished — a higher toll than the 13,500 figure.
Sep 20, 2026
By mid-1942 most foodstuffs were rationed, except fresh vegetables, fruit, fish and bread
Sep 20, 2026
By 5900 BC, caprines are likely present at Nabta Playa; earliest verifiable occurrence of domesticated cattle there is c. 5600 BC.
Sep 20, 2026
Butler uses Jewish sources to demonstrate that Israeli state violence against the indigenous Palestinians is incompatible with Jewish ethical principles.
Sep 20, 2026
Bullying and peer conflict rank among the most common sources of trauma in schools, leaving children feeling isolated, unsafe and anxious about attending school.
Sep 20, 2026
Broadside positioning, devised by Drake, was a success. He ordered the four great galleons to form and each ship fired a full broadside as she passed.
Sep 20, 2026
Britain went through the same sort of moral panic 300 years ago when the 'gin craze' hit the streets.
Sep 20, 2026
Brazil, Acerra, Robinson, and Mulligan participated in a sprawling corruption scheme from 1990 to 1996 involving false warrant applications and theft from drug dealers.
Sep 20, 2026
Both moral outrage and dehumanization predicted punishment independently of crime type or severity.
Sep 20, 2026
Both Young and Cohen may have been influenced by the brief appearance of the term in Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media.
Sep 20, 2026
Boston Latin School was the oldest public school in America, a secondary school for boys centered on Latin and Greek meant to prepare students for college.
Sep 20, 2026
Boston Latin School, established in 1635 as the Latin Grammar School, open to all boys regardless of social class, set a precedent for tax-supported public education.
Sep 20, 2026
Boston Latin offered free education to boys - rich or poor - while girls attended private schools at home.
Sep 20, 2026
Body count tracking during Vietnam War directly encouraged inflated reports and poor metrics.
Sep 20, 2026
Belonging support was a consistent predictor of self-reported disease outcomes, and perceived support is particularly protective.
Sep 20, 2026
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Sep 20, 2026
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Sep 20, 2026
Before modern science, the world was unfathomable and inexplicable, but science has shown that nature is logical and comprehensible.
Sep 20, 2026
Because of adaptation, observers exposed to different environments should perceive color in significantly and systematically different ways, including differences in achromatic settings.
Sep 20, 2026
Because Drake captured more than 1,000 tons of seasoned wood, the Spanish had to make their barrels from unseasoned wood, which couldn't preserve food and water, causing supply problems and…
Sep 20, 2026
Automatic behavior is your brain's efficiency strategy; the basal ganglia and other subcortical structures can run learned behaviors without conscious input.
Sep 20, 2026
Athletic performance improvements may be approaching physiological limits, suggesting environmental gains cannot push traits indefinitely.
Sep 20, 2026
At least 25% of regular meditators have experienced adverse effects from mindfulness.
Sep 20, 2026
As the island of knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance.
Sep 20, 2026
As the population base of weightlifting competitors grows, more extreme statistical outliers appear, driving up world records independent of true environmental or genetic shifts.
Sep 20, 2026
As McGinn argued, introspection cannot tell us how physical processes give rise to consciousness.
Sep 20, 2026
Around 4000 BP a climate change leading to desertification of the Sahara forced cattle and pastoralists southward.
Sep 20, 2026
Any sufficiently powerful mathematical system must contain true statements that cannot be proven within that system.
Sep 20, 2026
Anxiety, traumatic re-experiencing, and emotional sensitivity were the most common MRAE; 10.6% reported some functional impairment.
Sep 20, 2026
Anti-Zionists need to attack Israel as they would any other settler colonial ethnostate.
Sep 20, 2026
Anti-Muslim tropes depicting Muslims as inferior, subservient, and in need of saving were deployed to justify Western colonialism and imperialism, rooted in medieval depictions of Muslims as monsters.
Sep 20, 2026
Anne Anderson says the trial nearly destroyed her and nearly destroyed Jan Schlichtmann too
Sep 20, 2026
Ancient African domestic cattle are so distinct from both taurine and indicine cattle that they could derive from a separate domestication of African aurochs.
Sep 20, 2026
Analysis of 4 million IATs (2004-2016) shows American implicit attitudes toward race, skin tone, and sexuality became less biased over time, tracking cultural trends.
Sep 20, 2026
An important reason why the English were able to defeat the Armada was that the wind blew the Spanish ships northwards, celebrated on a medal inscribed 'God Blew and they were Scattered'.
Sep 20, 2026
Amnesty concluded the RSF committed 8 crimes against humanity in North Darfur, including murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, enslavement, extermination, and…
Sep 20, 2026
Americans gained up to 15 IQ points after iodized salt became mandatory in 1924.
Sep 20, 2026
American consumers are predicted to perceive a red brand label as more dangerous than Chinese consumers, reasoning that red carries danger associations in the US but positive ones in China.
Sep 20, 2026
America's military has no preordained right to victory on the battlefield.
Sep 20, 2026
Ambassador Chas Freeman draws a parallel between the demise of the Crusader kingdoms in Palestine and the current trajectory of Israel.
Sep 20, 2026
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Sep 20, 2026
All free men in the Roman Empire were to be given full Roman citizenship
Sep 20, 2026
All creation emerges from the fertile womb of silence, which is a positive, complete world unto itself, properly called divine and holy.
Sep 20, 2026
AlexNet was trained on two NVIDIA GTX 580 GPUs for several weeks
Sep 20, 2026
After sending reporters out of the courtroom, judge threatened to hold Robert Costello in contempt if the witness continued to stare at him.
Sep 20, 2026
After a matriarch elephant's death, her dependent calf died within months and no sustained adoption or compensatory care was observed, disrupting the family group.
Sep 20, 2026
African Bos primigenius was the primary source for early Saharan domesticated cattle.
Sep 20, 2026
Adverse childhood experiences are associated with much lower retirement wealth, even after controlling for parental education and income.
Sep 20, 2026
Adequate social support can reduce risk of all-cause mortality by up to 45% and cardio-cerebrovascular mortality by 60%.
Sep 20, 2026
Acting Suffolk County DA John Pappas announced his office would not retry Ellis, citing involvement of three corrupt officers and passage of time.
Sep 20, 2026
Acerra, Robinson, and Brazil all pleaded guilty in 1999 to federal corruption charges related to the scheme Mulligan was part of.
Sep 20, 2026
About 30% of meditators experienced challenging or distressing effects, and 9% reported functional impairment.
Sep 20, 2026
ASPI documents that the Chinese Communist Party denies committing human rights abuses in Xinjiang and has mounted information campaigns to push back against accusations of forced labour, mass…
Sep 20, 2026
ACEs are traumatic events occurring in childhood that produce lasting effects on health and life opportunities into adulthood, including education.
Sep 20, 2026
A system of interdependent networks is significantly more vulnerable to shocks and damages, leading to cascading failures across networks.
Sep 20, 2026
A shortage of seasoned wood for barrel staves — caused by Drake's raiding — meant that supplies of food and water went off.
Sep 20, 2026
A scarcity mindset alters neural mechanisms underlying goal-directed decision making, captured via fMRI in the orbitofrontal cortex.
Sep 20, 2026
A primary school teacher's own childhood schooling in post-apartheid South Africa involved exclusion, alienation, and cultural dissonance, rendering schooling experiences traumatic rather than…
Sep 20, 2026
A new harm monitoring study investigates the adverse effects of mindfulness-based practices.
Sep 20, 2026
A moral panic is characterized by themes of novelty, sudden explosive growth, and menace.
Sep 20, 2026
A moral panic sometimes passes over and is forgotten, except in folklore and collective memory.
Sep 20, 2026
A moral panic happens when society reacts with exaggerated fear or anger to a group seen as a threat to moral values.
Sep 20, 2026
A moral panic is a widespread fear, most often an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large.
Sep 20, 2026
A majority of Black children aged 3-7 preferred the white doll and assigned positive characteristics to it, leading the Clarks to conclude segregation created a feeling of inferiority.
Sep 20, 2026
A lack of reflection will not yield future self-aware social workers; it will perpetuate the cycle of oppression, discrimination, and racism.
Sep 20, 2026
A judge threw out the remaining gun conviction against Ellis, who spent more than 20 years in prison for the killing of a police detective.
Sep 20, 2026
A groundbreaking historical text presenting Israeli and Palestinian narratives side-by-side, involving Palestinian and Israeli high school teachers organized by Dan Bar-On and Sami Adwan.
Sep 20, 2026
A groundbreaking historical text presenting Israeli and Palestinian narratives side-by-side, offering parallel perspectives on key events to bridge conflict.
Sep 20, 2026
A force of 53,000 Ottoman troops under Reşid Mehmed Pasha advanced on Ibrahim's 15,000 Egyptians, who completely routed the larger army and captured Reşid.
Sep 20, 2026
A distinction is drawn between faceless and face-work commitments; involvement with abstract systems is routinized and often unconscious, with trust necessitated by ignorance.
Sep 20, 2026
A UN OHCHR report found credible allegations of torture, ill-treatment, sexual and gender-based violence in Xinjiang, concluding the extent of violations may constitute international crimes, in…
Sep 20, 2026
A Third Culture Kid's identity is built on underlying relationships with people around her, not the place she lives in.
Sep 20, 2026
A FOIA request must comply with the agency's published rules stating the time, place, fees, and procedures to be followed.
Sep 20, 2026
A 2017 study found that the introduction of iodized salt in 1924 raised IQ for the one-quarter of the population most deficient in iodine.
Sep 20, 2026
A 2013 study found a gradual increase in average intelligence of 1 standard deviation, 15 points in iodine-deficient areas and 3.5 points nationally after the introduction of iodised salt.
Sep 20, 2026
61% are wary of trusting AI systems, 67% report low-to-moderate acceptance, and most people have a low understanding of AI — trust and acceptance depend on the application.
Sep 20, 2026
58% of 96 participants reported at least one meditation-related adverse effect, ranging from perpetual hypersensitivity to nightmares.
Sep 20, 2026
1956 upended everything, causing Hall to abandon his doctoral thesis to become an activist
Sep 20, 2026
'Odyssey' derives from the Greek title 'Odusseia,' meaning 'the story of Odusseus'
Sep 20, 2026
High-quality birth-to-five early childhood programs can yield a 13% annual return through better outcomes in education, health, social behaviors, and employment.
Sep 20, 2026
Naipaul attended Queen's Royal College in Trinidad and later realized his education there had been 'abstract'—a European education with no relationship to the life on his island.
Sep 20, 2026
Audio reading gives 'un enfant noir normal ayant grandi au sein d'une famille normale s'anormalisera au moindre contact avec le monde blanc, on ne comprendra pas immédiatement cette proposition.'
Sep 20, 2026
At Blida-Joinville, Fanon and Gérômini introduced sociotherapy on the Muslim ward (the Notre Journal newspaper) because Western individualistic methods failed when patients' pathology was rooted…
Sep 20, 2026
Fanon drew the underpinnings of his child-abnormality argument from Germaine Guex's theory of 'abandonment neurosis' and himself said precious little about child development or ego psychology.
Sep 20, 2026
The knowledge deficit model—that educating citizens better will yield support for science—has failed empirically, with science education and evidence-refuting interventions showing little…
Sep 20, 2026
Survey of 567 Maryland parents found doctors (M=2.65) were the most trusted messengers, followed by family members (M=1.87) and schools (M=1.81), and trust in doctors strongly predicted…
Sep 20, 2026
Insurance deals with human beings in the aggregate, as a statistical abstraction without a face, while poetry is naturally concerned with the individual, the unquantifiable, and the unexpected.
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Sep 20, 2026
Stevens was an elaborately defended introvert in a three-piece suit working as a Hartford insurance executive, who relied on the routine demands of his office job for stability while his poetry…
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Sep 20, 2026
The ICC can prosecute crimes against humanity, and the 15 forms listed in the Rome Statute include murder, rape, imprisonment, torture, persecution, and other inhumane acts.
Sep 20, 2026
Multiple parameterizations can be observationally equivalent, so model parameters cannot be determined from observables until identifying restrictions are imposed.
Sep 20, 2026
The lack of regular, open communication between the Pentagon and the press is hurting civilian-military relations.
Sep 20, 2026
A lack of critical thinking and structured analysis led to flawed findings in military assessments.
Sep 20, 2026
Agency receipt of a perfected request starts the response time clock.
Sep 20, 2026
Dispositional self-awareness can be measured and its outcomes studied through a mixed methods questionnaire.
Sep 20, 2026
A pooled proportion of 12% (9% to 15%) of preventable patient harm was severe or led to death.
Sep 20, 2026
Deterioration rates in psychotherapy include physical well-being (13.1%), ability to work (13.1%), and vitality (11.1%).
Sep 20, 2026
41% of couples who combine finances admit to committing financial deceptions and 75% say they have been victims.
Sep 20, 2026
Financial infidelity can take the same emotional toll as physical or sexual infidelity.
Sep 20, 2026
We make financial decisions based 90% on emotion and only 10% on logic (Kahneman study).
Sep 20, 2026
Hameroff's Orch OR theory is 'highly implausible' when based on the simplest type of gravity-related entanglement.
Sep 20, 2026
Orch OR is a controversial theory postulating that consciousness originates at the quantum level inside neurons.
Sep 20, 2026
The global neuronal workspace (GNW) hypothesis attempts to account for the main scientific pillars of conscious processing.
Sep 20, 2026
Sarah and Inon take readers on a transformative weeklong journey across a sacred and bloodstained land, navigating 'the gray' together to reach a hard-won and hopeful understanding.
Sep 20, 2026
Netanyahu perpetuates Jewish fears for security, doing the Jewish people a disservice.
Sep 20, 2026
Palestine is where the humane traditions of Judaism went to die; Israel is now a pariah everywhere outside a few Western countries.
Sep 20, 2026
Goode and Ben-Yehuda have articulated three different types of moral panic—elite-engineered, grassroots, and interest group.
Sep 20, 2026
Jenna Ellis, a former Trump lawyer, pleaded guilty in the Georgia election interference case.
Sep 20, 2026
If you enter into a situation, you’re suddenly in the game. You have to keep that Hacky Sack in the air. When it falls down, you have to show disappointment and you have to start up the game again.
Sep 20, 2026
The habitus guides our behavior via intentionless invention of regulated improvisation, like 'a train bringing along its own rails'.
Sep 20, 2026
Goffman focuses on breaches and disruptions to the interaction matrix by introducing havoc as the unpredictability of social transgressions.
Sep 20, 2026
What looks like social grace or etiquette is actually a high-stakes mental ritual.
Sep 20, 2026
IHL requires that parties to armed conflicts ensure respect for graves and the dignified treatment of the dead, including enemy dead.
Sep 20, 2026
Learning to walk a tightrope involves starting low to the ground to reduce the risk of falling.
Sep 20, 2026
Kant says we should treat sentient beings as ends in themselves, but dead human beings are not sentient, raising a question about his view on corpses.
Sep 20, 2026
Acting with decorum is more like walking a tightrope than following an etiquette handbook, a game of high-stakes uncertainty
Sep 20, 2026
Participants who witnessed an exclusion game judged the victim as less human on both Human Nature and Human Uniqueness domains.
Sep 20, 2026
Victims might self-dehumanize because doing so makes their maltreatment appear to be deserved, reducing their distress.
Sep 20, 2026
Harmful agents were perceived to possess less agency than neutral or benevolent agents, consistent with dehumanization.
Sep 20, 2026
Netanyahu described Israel as a nuclear power in an apparent slip of the tongue before correcting himself.
Sep 20, 2026
The judge warned prosecutors they were 'pushing the boundaries' after defense argued an intentional attempt to mischaracterize evidence in the Manny Ellis trial.
Sep 20, 2026
The prosecutor's opening statement portrayed the defendant's alleged inculpation of Ellis as minimizing his own involvement by pointing the finger at Sean Ellis.
Sep 20, 2026
The recovered memory movement in the 1980s and early 1990s was a moral panic where therapists helped clients unearth supposedly repressed memories, shattering families.
Sep 20, 2026
Investigators found no evidence to substantiate any of roughly 12,000 accusations of group cult sexual abuse based on satanic ritual.
Sep 20, 2026
Every event that generates negative emotions must have a scapegoat, and scapegoating is fundamental to societal structures.
Sep 20, 2026
The scapegoat mechanism arrests mimetic violence and lays the foundation for renewed social order by redirecting collective aggression onto a single victim.
Sep 20, 2026
Social buffering protects honey bees from toxic accumulation; when social structure is compromised, the colony becomes vulnerable to toxic stress and disease.
Sep 20, 2026
Weber argued that in the modern West 'there are no mysterious incalculable forces' and 'one can master all things by calculation.'
Sep 20, 2026
Weber believed pre-modern world had a shattered moral, cognitive, and interpretive unity — an 'enchanted' worldview.
Sep 20, 2026
Camus holds that the universe remains fundamentally silent on purpose or meaning, requiring humans to bear an irresolvable emptiness rather than solve a cognitive mystery.
Sep 20, 2026
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced — Kierkegaard.
Sep 20, 2026
Dark matter and dark energy make up about 95% of the known universe, and physicists still lack a unifying theory of everything.
Sep 20, 2026
Chomsky argues that as biological organisms rather than angels, much of what we seek to understand may lie beyond our cognitive limits.
Sep 20, 2026
Average U.S. Holstein milk yield nearly doubled 1950-2000, with more than half of the progress resulting from genetic selection despite only moderate heritability (20-40%).
Sep 20, 2026
Theory provides ambiguous guidance on the sign of economic shock effects on families, since fertility may rise or fall depending on circumstances.
Sep 20, 2026
Removing top predators like sea otters triggers reciprocal population changes down the food chain, causing dramatic shifts in ecosystem structure.
Sep 20, 2026
The 2003 Northeast Blackout shows how the outage of a single generator triggered a chain reaction of power failures affecting ~50 million people.
Sep 20, 2026
Persistent misunderstanding between Keynesian and Walrasian General Equilibrium paradigms in economics results from Kuhnian incommensurability rather than empirical failure or lack of clarity.
Sep 20, 2026
Snow diagnosed a sociological 'gulf of mutual incomprehension' between scientists and humanists rooted in differing training and institutions, not logical incommensurability of concepts.
Sep 20, 2026
Valentine presented distorted 'types', not realistic portraits, to perpetuate Lost Cause myths