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Moscow's ideological visa programme for foreigners seeking to escape 'destructive neoliberal tendencies' and 'satanic values' has not been as successful as was hoped. The Kremlin is counting on Maria Butina, convicted of spying in the US, to help boost the programme.

Paleolithic people had stories to tell. From about 40,000 years ago, and for approximately the next 25,000 years — a period 12 times longer than the Common Era — they conveyed these through images painted on cave walls, carved on ivory tusks, engraved and etched on stones and shells, and did so, as far as we can tell, all over Europe, Asia and... See more

Oral stories were absorbed into the mythologies of different places and cultures, and versions of them, now written down, followed the same tradition.

The next geopolitical lines are already forming. The dots are appearing. The only question is: Will you recognize the line before it’s too late?

Occurring throughout both Homeric epics, passages like these give the listener or reader a feeling of connection to others and to a cosmic order that author Angus Fletcher tells us “triggers our pituitary ... prompting a rise in our blood oxytocin” even when reading silently and alone. The Iliad calls upon our courage and gives us the “heated... See more

To me, the deepest truth is that truth itself rarely applies to people.

early observations of how seven criminal intelligence analysts think and how they make inferences. We used the Critical Decision Method to identify the causal mechanisms of how they think and reason, i.e. how they organize, structure and assemble their information, understandings and inferences