Sociology and Psychology to Leg Wrestle for Total Domination of Serial Killing
There is a massive, albeit subtle to those of us not really paying attention, grab being made by the field of sociology right now. The social science is making a move to wrestle control of the study of...
View ArticleThe Difference Between a Sociopath and a Psychopath
Chemical Ali was hanged yesterday in Iraq. He was the cousin of Saddam Hussein. Under his cousin’s regime, Ali Hassan al-Majid ordered and orchestrated, among other things, the 1988 chemical weapons...
View ArticleHow to Make It Work Like Tim Gunn
Tim Gunn, "Project Runway" co-host and chief creative officer of Liz Claiborne. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images) Before I set out to see Tim Gunn speak last Monday as part of the publicity tour for his book...
View ArticleSocial Media to America: What line between personal and public life?
TechCrunch ran an op-ed piece a couple weeks ago (thanks for the link, LOML) prognosticating that the relentless push of social media will soon be accountable for erasure of the line between business...
View ArticleWhy Comparing Japan to New Orleans is Disingenuous
Utagawa Kunyoshi's early-19th century woodblock print, The Buddhist Monk Calms the Storm; probably not propaganda for Japanese superiority. ((c)Getty Images/Thinkstock) Much has been made of the...
View ArticleWhy not just hate the pushy psychology brochures?
"Mexico" (THEPALMER/iStockphoto.com) Humans don’t like being pushed around, especially when it’s some pencil neck psychology brochure doing the pushing and it’s telling them not to hate another group....
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