Anthropomorphism is one of the oldest tropes in human culture. Some of the earliest known artworks, from cave paintings to sculptures, depict creatures that mix human and animal characteristics. Even today, the most technologically advanced computer entertainments are full of anthropomorphic characters. Why are humans so predisposed to humanising other
Merry Fitzpatrick Irwin Rosenberg Tufts University Merry’s research interests span two separate but related fields. She has had a long-term interest in livelihoods and food security in conflict and post-conflict settings. The focus of this work is on supporting local strategies that households and communities use to mitigate, cope
Zilvinas Silenas fee.org Zilvinas Silenas became President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in May 2019. He served from 2011-2019 as the President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI), bringing the organization and its free-market policy reform message to the forefront of Lithuanian public discourse. On July
PA Pundits – International Gillian Richards papundits.wordpress.com Gillian Richards is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ Protesters rallied in the nation’s capital Thursday to challenge the Biden administration’s proposed new rules for enforcing Title IX’s anti-discrimination provisions
As the world’s oldest known joke shows, humour has both its constants and has also lost something in the translation over the millennia. The constant is that humans have apparently been telling fart jokes forever. The loss-in-translation is that the 4,000 year-old Sumerian knee-slapper just seems a bit…
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion Do New Zealand people need to understand mortality to be able to find some kind of base position to steady their minds, at this time of young people dropping dead everywhere? Reflections on mortality Is it not true that
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. The Trans Revolution is like the war in Ukraine. On some fronts the Ukrainian troops creep slowly forward; on others, they retreat. Similarly, in the UK, the trans juggernaut may have ground to a
Edward W. Fuller mises.org Edward Fuller, MBA, is a graduate of the Leavey School of Business. John Mearsheimer recently gave an important lecture on the Ukrainian war. He warns that “the United States is now effectively at war with Russia”. Mearsheimer argues, “The United States is principally responsible.” Alexander
John Ling wealthmorning.com John is the Chief Investment Officer at Wealth Morning. His responsibilities include trading, client service, and compliance. He is an experienced investor and portfolio manager, trading both on his own account and assisting with high net-worth clients. ‘History is written by the victors.’ We’ve all
New Zealand First Media The recent diatribe by Minister of Maori Development Willie Jackson which slams the ‘one person, one vote’ outrage is alarming not only for its content but its ignorance of history, facts, and the essence of democracy. He claims that the recently passed Ngai Tahu Bill is
Hiroshi Yoshida fee.org Hiroshi Yoshida is an award-winning Certified Public Accountant and Licensed Tax Accountant with a Ph.D. in Policy Studies from Chiba University of Commerce. He is the President of The Institute of Public Sector Accounting and of The Free Economy Institute in Japan. (Editor’s Note:
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org On 1 September, 1941, Chief of Reich Security Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most fanatical, mass-murdering Nazis, issued a now notorious decree ordering Jews above the age of six to wear an identifying badge in public. The Jewish Badge, a yellow Star of David with the
Actor and playwright Oscar Kightley has announced he is running for Henderson-Massey in Auckland’s local elections. He also argues the Government hasn’t gone far enough to redress the dawn raids of the 1970s. “They were such extraordinary times that I think an apology requires extraordinary compensation.” A year
Anyone who’s prone to babbling about “IFL Science!” and spouting idiotic memes like, “The overwhelming majority of scientists…” could really do with a rudimentary education in the history of science. Some really bad ideas have been promulgated as “settled science”, and some really appalling people have been prominent scientists.
The 1947 “Black Dahlia” murder could be said to be America’s “Ripper” case. The gruesome mutilation murder of a young woman has never been solved. The case exerted enormous public fascination, but on few more than a young James Ellroy, whose own mother was likewise murdered in an unsolved
