Lifestyle topics
“Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind”. Albert Einstein It was nationalism that was a major cause of the First World War and the Second one, too, although the nationalism was a trifle one-sided in that case. There are many good things about living in the US, but the nationalism of a certain …
A new study has found that people are significantly more likely to give money to charity after eating the equivalent of a triple-egg omelette. Eggs are brimming with amino acids, and provide us with every vitamin we need except C. Researchers in the Netherlands now believe that one of those amino acids – tryptophan, or …
40% of British girls aged between 13 and 17 say they have been forced into a sex act by their boyfriends. One-fifth have suffered physical violence at the hands of a boyfriend. (The Times)
Some people may be more prone to anxiety than others because they “caught” their mother’s stress in the womb, scientists claim. The team, from the Queen’s Medical Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh, has found that a component of the placenta which protects unborn babies from high levels of stress hormones in the mother’s …
Following the lively discussion yesterday between Owen and Ezra I would like to return to the issue of “neoliberalism”. The best way to do this is to quote a review by Eugene McCarreher of a book by Philp Mirowski called How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, (Verso, $29.95) In the neoliberal imagination, the human person is …
