FP's Shameful Attempt at Spinning Hiroshima Bombing as Beneficial for Japan

"What’s really disturbing, however, is how readily they’re being accepted by the West, which frighteningly opens up the possibility for a full-scale historical revisionism of the post-World War II era and the fact that unquestioned objectivity will be laid to waste in the pursuit of political subjectivity."

How emotions influence learning and memory processes in the brain

"It seems that when the emotion is social and positive, the brain tells the different areas to work according to one communication protocol. When a different emotion is involved, such a negative emotion of fear as in our experiment, the brain tells the same areas to use a different communication protocol. We will need to conduct additional studies, including studies on humans, in the future in order to understand the precise ramifications of each emotion on memory."

Pennsylvania to Become First State to Use “Precrime” Statistics in Criminal Sentencing

"We are discussing whether or not to use statistics on 'potential future crimes' in determining how much time a person will remain involuntarily locked in a cage. Obviously there will be errors, and any error that leads to someone spending more time in prison based on a flawed prediction is ethically indefensible. If you want to use such statistics to only reduce punishment I could be in favor of it, but to use it to justify harsher sentencing seems like a horrible idea."

Global War On Terror Has Killed 4 Million Muslims Or More

"As Ahmed points out in his article, the majority of those killed in these wars and those suffering most from these wars, statistically speaking, were Muslim — a stark contrast to the common view that radical Muslim terrorists are the deadliest group in the Middle East. Rather, it would seem the American military are the worst killers, and the death toll resembles religious genocide."

Bernie Sanders says the 1 percent have screwed-up brains

"Interestingly, the research shows wealthy people are less empathetic and tend to think of themselves and others in terms of fixed traits, instead of attributing a person’s emotional state to context and surroundings. And the rich tend to think of income inequality — from which they benefit — as the just result of meritocracy rather than a system rigged in their favor."

"The Senator barrels ahead, calling for expensive (and desperately needed) domestic social and environmental programs without making any serious reference to how the United States' gargantuan war budget devours more than half of the nation's federal discretionary spending."

Rationalists are Harshing My Empiricist Mellow

"Elsewhere they use a fair semblance of logic, but here their logic becomes wondrous weird. Elsewhere they generally succeed in preserving the standard scientific stolidity, but here they frequently manifest and confess a submission to emotions ill befitting those who sprang from the head of Brahma. Elsewhere they observe the knightly etiquette of the lists, but in this field think it no shame to decline the fair encounter, and, from the safe shelter of the barrier, to jeer about the presumptive quality of their opponents’ brains."

The Mind-Bending Science of Awe

"In their experiments, people in a state of awe were more likely to report belief in supernatural forces, and to believe that a random series of numbers was created by a human. His recent work indicates that awe also makes people more likely to report that science explains all natural events."