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  • Research Suggests Traumatic ‘Memories’ can be Inherited

    Research Suggests Traumatic ‘Memories’ can be Inherited0

    Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta have found promising data showing that it’s possible for certain information to be biologically inherited by offspring, due to chemical changes in one’s DNA.   Trials using mice discovered that traumatic and stressful experiences, and the emotions that are felt during them, can be passed down

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  • Policing Was Militarized from the Start

    Policing Was Militarized from the Start0

    “Do you see this soldier in this checkpoint?” complained Iraqi resident Wael al-Khafaji, pointing to a spot just a few feet from his Baghdad barbershop.  “He can do whatever he wants to me right now and I can’t say a word. Is this democracy?” Before the U.S. invasion, this businessman – like millions of other

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  • How Machiavellian Are You?

    How Machiavellian Are You?0

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  • The Hippocratic Oath doesn’t say ‘First, Do No Harm’

    The Hippocratic Oath doesn’t say ‘First, Do No Harm’2

    The Greek physician Hippocrates (460 – 370 BC) is considered the father of modern medicine in Western culture. It would be unusual to take an ethics class at a medical school in the United States and not here mention of the author of the Hippocratic Oath.   Many people believe the Hippocratic Oath begins with

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  • That Alexander Hamilton Had One Messed Up Childhood

    That Alexander Hamilton Had One Messed Up Childhood1

    Interest in Alexander Hamilton, the man commonly dubbed America’s “most brilliant” Founding Father, has spiked following the success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway “>musical: Hamilton. While I’ve yet to see the musical, I have read the book that inspired Miranda’s work: Ron Chernow’s stunning biography, Alexander Hamilton. It is perhaps the single best biography I’ve read,

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  • Parricide Was Not Treated Kindly in Ancient Rome

    Parricide Was Not Treated Kindly in Ancient Rome0

    Rome was the cultural epicenter of the ancient world. It was renowned for its law and order, piety, engineering, and fine art. But it was still a terribly brutal civilization by modern standards. In the mid-5th century BC, Rome established its first legal code, the Twelve Tables. Oddly, the code was silent on the subject

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