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Fabian Socialists Gone Wild (With Videos)
Famous Fabians: H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Ramsay MacDonald, Jawaharial Nehru, writers Harold Laski and H. Tawney, G.D.H. Cole, Bertrand Russell who resigned because he believed the Socialists (Fabians) in the leadership government role against Germany would lead to war. These are just a few names of the past. The more recent rolls are composed of 5,810 individual registered members (2004).
The Art of Bollywood: Ode to a pre-digital era in Indian film poster art
In "The Art Of Bollywood" authors Rajesh Devraj and Edo Bouman document the hand-painted movie posters that made Bollywood the love of the East and the fascination of the West. Devraj and Bouman successfully map a design history that extends over 70 years in their ode to one of India's most unique art forms. The book, which spans the silent era through to the 1980s and 1990s, covers a pre-digital time in Bollywood poster history.
Suffering Souls: The search for the roots of psychopathy.
There is also little consensus among researchers about what causes psychopathy. Considerable evidence, including several large-scale studies of twins, points toward a genetic component. Yet psychopaths are more likely to come from neglectful families than from loving, nurturing ones. Psychopathy could be dimensional, like high blood pressure, or it might be categorical, like leukemia. Researchers argue over whether tests used to measure it should focus on behavior or attempt to incorporate personality traits—like deceitfulness, glibness, and lack of remorse—as well.
Be Afraid, America. Be Very Afraid: The Effect of Negative Media
The negativity in the news penetrates the way we think and act without us being fully aware. Nightly news tells us how dangerous it is to fly in planes nowadays, and we rethink our travel plans. Girls see negative body images splashed across the magazines they read, and they starve themselves until they match those images. The news is a mirror in which millions look every night and what they end up seeing in the reflection is a life in imminent danger. A telling example of how media negativity results in more negative feelings and actions of the viewers can be seen in the recent economic crisis. In a simplified version of the problem, consumers have lost confidence and consequently stopped spending out of fear of losing their jobs. That simple view misses how media negativity perpetuates the problem. By making the economic, employment, and stock market situation more negative than it has to be, the news has scared everyone even more. As author Jon Gordon recently put it, “A society in a state of depression can’t think its way out of a crisis.”
The Singapore Solution
If you want to get a Singaporean to look up from a beloved dish of fish-head curry—or make a harried cabdriver slam on his brakes—say you are going to interview the country's "minister mentor," Lee Kuan Yew, and would like an opinion about what to ask him. "The MM?Wah lau! You're going to see the MM? Real?" You might as well have told a resident of the Emerald City that you're late for an appointment with the Wizard of Oz. After all, LKY, as he is known in acronym-mad Singapore, is more than the "father of the country." He is its inventor, as surely as if he had scientifically formulated the place with precise portions of Plato's Republic, Anglophile elitism, unwavering economic pragmatism, and old-fashioned strong-arm repression.
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