Results for “Origins Project”

30 can decay over time. They can get too rigid, they can fail to adapt, and if they do, then they’re going to get into trouble, just like authoritarian systems. The other issue, which we’ve already touched on, is contingency in history. So the route to getting into modernity is,...

OGIS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING FOIA FOIA also directs OGIS to make recommendations to Congress and the President to improve FOIA. In April 2012, OGIS released five recommendations that the Office compiled in its first years. For example, OGIS encouraged agency participatio...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians In May 2014, Putin signed a new law that criminalized the purposeful distortion of the Soviet Union's role in World War II. It could easily be applied to historians who, for example, criticize Stali...

…uscript; Pub Date: February 2017; 448 pages] One of the world's foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind. What is human consciousness and how is it possible? This question fascinates people from poets and painters to physicists, psycho...

…nce the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele's efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior DOJ and FBI officials. b) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named U.S. person,...

… to run the CIA!” (He was referring to Leon Panetta, President Clinton’s former chief of staff.) Snowden attributed the origins of his antipathy to US intelligence to his 2007-2009 experiences in the CIA. Snowden later told Vanity Fair that the 2009 incident in the CIA convinced...

…— which justifies using the uniform term people to refer to all of them. Misconceptions about human thinking and human origins are causing corresponding misconceptions about AGI and how it might be created. For example, it is generally assumed that the evolutionary pressure that...

…ion Professor School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Dept. Co-director, Cosmology Initiative and Director, Origins initiative Arizona State University Sent from my iPhone On Apr 6, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: no it was appreci...

…aw by Catholic bishops, classical equilibrium thermodynamic ideas that are borrowed for use out of the context of their origins, risk the calumny of their physicist practitioners. We have probably already earned more than a little distain from those quarters with our use of none-...

…ernance, but authoritarian propaganda has presented term limits as artificial constraints, associated them with foreign origins, and claimed that they do not suit every country’s unique historical, cultur- al, or security conditions. While these ideas may not amount to a coheren...

… in which it might be used. There is, for example, a use of that knowledge for construct- ing a history paper about the origins of the United States. Of course, that itself may not be a useful exercise. In the context of doing that exercise, assuming there was good justification...

…ons of lives. Often, this potential is realized. My aim in this book has been to explain evil to better understand its origins, not to justify or promote it. My aim has been to explain evil to clarify its root cause, to alert others to its early warning signs, and to pave the wa...

…ulfilling prophecy, leading to fear and withdrawal rather than attempts to reinvigorate the existing global system. The origins of the contemporary era lie in the West's transformation during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. No other civilization...

…n enzyme that could catalyze the production of an LSD-like hallucinogen, dimethyltryptamine, DMT. Tracing its metabolic origins, we found that DMT was derived from tryptamine, a common metabolite of the essential and omnipresent amino acid, tryptophan. This enzyme and its metabol...

CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction: Modern Authoritarians: Origins, Anatomy, Outlook 5 Chapters 1. Validating Autocracy through the Ballot 10 2. Propaganda at Home and Abroad 15 3. The Enemy Within: Civil Society at Bay 22 4. The Ministry of Truth in Peace and War 29 5....