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The Upside of Sexual Objectification
NOVEMBER 14, 2011 BY AMANDA HESS : GOOD
When a woman takes off her clothes, does it change her mind? The theory of
sexual objectification says that the more we focus on a person's body, the
less we t
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Heather Madrone
> wrote:
>> I have heard that it was the result of an influx of precious metals from
>> the New World, which increased the money supply and allowed the European
>> economy to boom.
The p
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Heather Madrone wrote:
> I have heard that it was the result of an influx of precious metals from
> the New World, which increased the money supply and allowed the European
> economy to boom.
Spanish gold retrieved after killing the Indians, and Brazilian silver
On 11/15/11 3:04 AM November 15, 2011, Dave Long wrote:
[1] was the renaissance a result of native humanism recovering from
vandalism, or simply the result of an influx of civilized refugees
from the (other, longer-lived) roman empire, taking refuge with their
former trading partners somewher
My cynical take on the last 5'000 years of civilizational musical
chairs:
Like social darwinists[0], each civilization that finds itself
solidly athwart the nexus of a significant trade network generates
writers who ascribe this dominance to essential cultural[1] , rather
than accidental
