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...latest entry in the mockumentary subgenre, will be tempted to make comparisons to Guest’s earlier work, This Is Spinal Tap. The classic parody of perpetually witless hard rockers finds its complement in both music and volume with Wind, which focuses not on the disaster-prone tour of a brainless metal band, but a disaster-prone tribute concert in memory of a late, legendary folk music producer. The premise is just the sort of odd episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that...
...Enter Conflict,” LeBlanc describes the excavation sites of Mimbre villages in southwestern Mexico. The Mimbres, who flourished three thousand millennia ago, have traditionally been viewed as farmers. Yet the remains of Mimbre settlements have been found frequently on hilltops, which are inconvenient for farming and prone to lightning strikes...
...reason may be that humans are prone to aggressive behavior. LeBlanc cites the work of Professor of Biological Anthropology Richard Wrangham, who studied warfare among chimpanzees. LeBlanc observes that humans, like chimps, are not prone to warfare but to aggression, which leads to war. It is not true that some peoples are by nature more “peaceful” than others; all humans seem to be genetically programmed for aggression, he writes...
...while humans may be prone to aggressive behavior, this does not mean they are prone to war. In fact, LeBlanc writes, a smaller percentage of people today are likely to be killed by war than in the past—a hopeful prediction in today’s world...
...might be inclined to think that a 1-out-of-10,000 chance of death isn't so bad. But here's the tricky thing about peanut allergy: there's no way to predict who is prone to anaphylaxis and who isn't. Many people who develop anaphylaxis previously suffered only a mild reaction after consuming peanuts. Couple that with the fact that it is increasingly difficult to avoid peanuts--which, in addition to obvious sources like peanut butter and peanut oil, may be found in plain chocolate candies, sunflower seeds and other foods because of cross-contamination in processing...