Archive for March, 2011

• Government by Assassination

March 7th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 5GW, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, extremists, Failed State, foreign policy, history, islamic world, islamist, military, military history, national security, non-state actors, pakistan, politics, state failure, state terrorism, terrorism | 8 comments

• A Cliff Notes Version of *The Prince* at SWJ Blog

March 7th, 2011 by zen

Posted in dictator, fun, swj blog | Comments Off on A Cliff Notes Version of *The Prince* at SWJ Blog

• The Sociobiological Origins of Beauty

March 6th, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, anthropology, attention, brain, cognition, cultural intelligence, culture, Evolution, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, Perception, philosophy, Prehistoric, psychology, science, social science, society, sociobiology, synthesis, TED, theory | Comments Off on The Sociobiological Origins of Beauty

• Two courtyards, two hundred camels

March 6th, 2011 by Charles Cameron

Posted in Afghanistan, analogy, arab world, authors, Charles Cameron, cognition, creativity, cultural intelligence, fun, games, humor, meme, rambling, recommended reading, symmetry, Writing | 3 comments

• Marginalia

March 6th, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, book, culture, eddie, historiography, history, reading, society, tech, Uncategorized | 10 comments