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THE THIRD CULTURE
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THANKSGIVING EDITION
TERRORISM AND RADICALIZATION: WHAT TO DO, WHAT NOT TO DO
By Scott Atran
... Scott Atran, an American academic who has investigated the Hamburg cell connected to the September 11 2001 attacks in the US and numerous other terrorist attacks around the world, witnessed much of the trial and described it as "a complete farce".
--The Guardian, October 31, 2007
Presented at U.S. State Department/UK House of Lords
October/November 2007
[Slide Presentation]
SCOTT ATRAN is a research director in anthropology at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France. He is also visiting professor of psychology and public policy at the University of Michigan and presidential scholar in sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City.
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IN THE NEWS
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THE INDEPENDENT
November 20, 2007
Are the family clichés true?
The middle one's always difficult, the eldest is a bossy boots and the youngest is a tearaway. But are the family clichés true? Finally, scientists have the answer. Steve Connor (youngest of two) reports
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BUSINESS DAY (South Africa)
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Street Dogs: A little more about black swans
ANALYSTS are historians who are predicting the past, said Intel CEO Craig Barrett. Nassim Taleb said " a black swan is a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations".
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WIRED
November 17, 2007
23ANDME WILL DECODE YOUR DNA FOR $1,000. WELCOME TO THE AGE OF GENOMICS
By Thomas Goetz
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BOOKS FROM EDGE
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WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better With an Introduction by Daniel C. Dennett, Edited
By John Brockman
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