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...repression leads to defiant counterculture in Korea, just like anywhere else. Young people flock to packed and pulsating club areas ready to bump and grind to American hits and the sounds of the immortal Korean rapper Crown J. The gay community heads off to party at “Homo Hill” in Itaewon, the international district. And wasted government officials delay their trips to “massage parlors” to accost groups of Americans and buy them rounds of whiskey bombs. (Thanks, Mr. Choo...
...Although Greenspan’s analysis referred specifically to financial markets, it also restates a valuable historical lesson about politics: If we expect what is reasonable, we will be disappointed. At least in the financial world, models are more helpful, because despite the inexistence of a homo economicus, most people in most circumstances are driven by profit maximization. They may not know how to achieve it at all times, but they always want better results for their portfolios. When it comes to politics, however, for better or for worse, motivations more often transcend rational concerns...
...heart of the mental illness craze is the question of what constitutes a normal, healthy mind. As scientific knowledge expands its understanding of genomics and the chemical make-up of the brain, there is a temptation to declare what should be considered a model specimen of Homo sapiens. However, the greatest contributor to human diversity is not large-scale cultural, environmental, or genetic diversity, but rather the basic differences that makes every brain unique. To load a person up on chemicals or therapies in order to iron out the aspects of his personality that don’t correspond...
...with disappointment in myself and in homo sapiens in general that I walked out of the bullfighting ring. What in human nature makes us want to turn death into sport? Death is, as we all know, a part of life. But it’s one that would ideally be met with acceptance and reverence—and there’s something carnival-like about the atmosphere of a bullfight that comes across stronger than any reverence the matador may feel toward the bull...
...under the skin approach,” Lalueza-Fox said. While Neanderthals followed a different evolutionary path to their redheaded appearance than modern humans, their pale skin and red hair provided certain advantages comparable to that of northern Europeans today. At high altitudes, where there is less UV radiation, homo sapiens have light skin to help absorb sufficient Vitamin D for healthy bones. Red hair has no apparent evolutionary advantage, although some have suggested that it could be useful for sex selection, according to Lalueza-Fox. “From experience, the Darwinian fitness of redheads is exceptionally high...