Word: reasonableness
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...could be contaminating," or "I don't want to be seen to be doing something that the rest of the group thinks is bad." There are these responses towards events which trigger all sort of very rapid behaviors that you can, after the event, justify with a level of reason. But it's already after the fact. You've already made a decision on an intuitive level...
...think it's good for the simple reason that it's still around today. It's obviously conferred some advantages. I think it's adaptive on the individual level in that, if you believe you can control uncontrollable situations, it makes them less stressful. So the role of personal ritual is very useful in dealing with situations where you feel threatened. But I also think that the supersense could operate at the social level. What I mean by that is that if everyone in a group buys into the possibility that there are some values that are sacred...
...Titian, the son of a dyer - hence the name - Tintoretto was the only one of the Big Three born in Venice. He very briefly apprenticed with Titian but was driven out of the workshop, according to some sources, because Titian was jealous of Tintoretto's evident gifts. For whatever reason there was bad blood between them ever after, and there ensued many instances when one sought to block the other from getting work or to use a highly visible public commission to outdo the other's effort...
...think there is a culture where it’s the showing up and showing your face that’s the reason for being there, rather than showing what you’ve been working on for change,” Yoon said. “Believe me, you’ve been in my thoughts...
According to Buth and the ODI's Harmer, it is unclear why kidnappings of aid workers have taken off so quickly. One reason could be that the tactic has spread from Iraq, where insurgents have kidnapped hundreds of foreign contractors since the U.S. invasion in 2003. As in Iraq, kidnappings of foreign aid workers - like those in Darfur - "make for a more visible political statement" than attacking local humanitarian staff, says the ODI report. Aid organizations have always insisted that they do not pay ransoms for their kidnapped staff. But the reality is more complicated. A few years...