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• Data Meets Durkheim

  

  Ever since Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912), most scholars have assumed the collective rituals function to arouse emotions and bond... Read more

  The 24 September 2014 by   Cris
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• Catherine Eddowes and Kosminski

  

  It seems like Jack the Ripper is back in the news again in a rather big way, which is jolly nice for me as, like Russell Edwards, who is responsible for the... Read more

  The 08 September 2014 by   Mmeguillotine
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• Being Georgian at Kew Palace

  

  This has been an amazing year for the Historic Royal Palaces thanks to the amazing events they have had going on to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the... Read more

  The 04 September 2014 by   Mmeguillotine
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• Durkheim, A Deathy, and a Conversation Without Crickets

  

  -Contributed by Charity A. Smith, MA–Thanatology.The fastest way to bring a conversation to a grinding halt, in just about any social setting, is to tell... Read more

  The 30 September 2014 by   Chp
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• A Theory of the Color of Dyes

  

  Image credit: Kanwal Jahan.Colors convey ideas and emotions in such fundamental ways that being able to capture and use them has been an important component of... Read more

  The 17 September 2014 by   Scarc
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• The Discovery of Human Plastin at the Pauling Institute

  

  [Guest post written by John Leavitt, Ph.D., Nerac, Inc., Tolland, CT.]In 1985 my lab at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine (LPISM) in Palo Alto... Read more

  The 03 September 2014 by   Scarc
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• Book Review – Ringworld by Larry Niven

  

  Ringworld by Larry Niven is an important work in sci-fi history. It has spawned a number of follow-up books and has influenced many other writers, heck, element... Read more

  The 29 September 2014 by   Manofyesterday
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• A Trip to the Opera

  

  Opera cape, 1898. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.As some of the more keen eyed among you may have noticed, I am about to turn forty in the next... Read more

  The 23 September 2014 by   Mmeguillotine
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• Book Review – Batman: Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale

  

  Batman: Dark Victory is a sequel to the excellent The Long Halloween, in which a serial killer known as Holiday murdered people over the span of a year, and... Read more

  The 11 September 2014 by   Manofyesterday
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