Aaron Sell and Leda Cosmides and John Tooby and Daniel Sznycer and Christopher von Rueden and Michael Gurven, “Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, forthcoming.
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Selection in species with aggressive social interactions favours the evolution of cognitive [...]
Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.
Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…
Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, [...]
In 1975, Andy Warhol peered into the future and saw . . . Damien Hirst? ‘Business Art is the step that comes after Art,’ Warhol wrote in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. Not only was it OK for artists to make as much money as possible, but ‘making money is art’ and ‘good business is [...]
The following story by Daniil Kharms is from The Man with the Black Coat: Russia’s Literature of the Absurd, George Gibian (Trans), Northwestern University Press, Evanston IL, 1997, pp. 104–105. I’ve been reading a new translation of Kharms’ work available here.