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Could our political deadlock have its origins in evolutionary psychology, in the primal need to assert territory and defend it, in the stereotyping of an enemy, in the comfort and safety of belonging to a clan? Whatever its origins, chaos pervades the political scene. Right versus left, Democrats vs. Republicans, conservative versus liberal: Who are you with? Is our memory of more gentle time a false image? Can we ever achieve that kind of peace and civility again?
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Almost 40% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 have tattoos and about half of those have between two and five of them. See Millennials (2010).
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In fact, today, the term “Asimov data set” describes a situation in which a single experiment can replace a multitude of experiments.
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Gordon, T.J., Todorova, M. (2019). Political Chaos. In: Future Studies and Counterfactual Analysis . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18437-7_12
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