In a series of four experiments, behavioral scientists at the University of Chicago and the Wisconsin School of Business tested students’ willingness to ___themselves to unpleasant stimuli in an effort to satisfy curiosity. For one experiment, each ___was shown a pile of pens that the research...
The dangerous pursuit of the criminal, near defeat of our hero, defeat of the villain, violent destruction of the island hideout, near death of the hero, and lots of sex between Bond and Kissy. What more could you want? Although he is declared dead, there is the suggestion of how Bond...
This article invites the view that the Europeanization of an antitotalitarian “collective memory” of communism reveals the emergence of a field
security, revealing how the related events have been packaged and sold differently in the two societies, uncovering the discrepancies in Chinese and US social visions on maritime security, and exploring the social attitudes underpinning the constant conflicts between the two countries in the marine ...
a statue to the Brown Dog was erected with the motto: “Men and Women of England, how long shall these Things be?” Medical students in London were outraged and staged a series of violent riots intended to intimidate anti-vivisectionists. Tired of the controversy, the Brown Dog statue was...
There has been limited synthesis of relevant literature to date. Gunkel (2018a) provides the most thorough review to set up his argument about “robot rights,” categorizing contributions into four modalities: “Robots Cannot Have Rights; Robots Should Not Have Rights,”“Robots Can Have Rights;...
The Europeans were relentless. They came west with their wagons and guns and plows and domesticated livestock. The buffalo herds were in the way, as were the Native American tribes. And both of the latter gave way. It was a violent time in my country. ...
The near day broke in cold, frightening and violent rain. Eyes were blinded. The downpour splashed up clay, sand and pebbles from the damaged ramparts which oozed mud. The water flowed from the gutters into the valley, across the filthy battlefield, vainly trying to cleanse the pools of blo...
Black, Burnside, Hastings and Thom point out the violent outcome for Indigenous people in the current Western-centric legal system. Indigenous rights have not been properly protected in the current regime. They argue that a human rights criminological lens can accelerate the re-envisioning of an in...
This work intends to investigate the different conceptions—accommodation and laicization—that underlie processes of legislative regulation and judicial decision in matters of conflicts involving the right to religious freedom, in the legal systems of North America and Brazil. We will also investigate th...