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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Broadsides: Mia Farrow: A Crazier, Older, More Altruistic Angelina Jolie? |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 4:15 pm |
| Tags: Abortion, Absintence, Altruism, Anorexia, Autism, Baby Machines, Birth Control, Broadsides, Condoms, Darfur, Doulas, Japan, Marriage, Mia Farrow, Mitt Romney, Paps |
| Mia Farrow is offering to give up her own freedom for that of a Sudanese rebel under hospital arrest. Is she for real or is this just some empty offer to prove once that she's a better person than... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| 0800-HOW-IS-MY-DIPLOMACY? Technology and humanitarian action |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 5:47 am |
| Tags: Humanitarian Impacts, Humanitarian Action, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Borrie, Human Security, Altruism, Civilians, Accountability |
| Regular readers of the Disarmament Insight blog will have gathered that, among many things, we're interested in the impacts of technology on international decision-making. Patricia Lewis, for instance, has offered some of her personal observations about the changes mobile phones and Blackberries have wrought on interactions in multilateral |
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| Fun and Games |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 9:58 am |
| Tags: Trust, Social Interactions, Defection, Schelling, Axelrod, Cooperation, Borrie, Altruism, Nowak |
| not able to undermine their altruism. "Even if outside our network there are cheaters, we still help each other a lot," Dr. Nowak said. That is not to say that cooperation always emerges. Dr. Nowak identified the conditions when it can arise with a simple equation: B/C>K. That is, cooperation will emerge if the benefit-to-cost (B/C) ratio of |
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| Altruism evolved from maternal behavior |
| Published: September 28, 2007, 8:34 am |
| Tags: Science, Altruism, Insects, Wasp |
| Researchers at the University of Illinois have used an innovative approach to reveal the molecular basis of altruistic behavior in wasps. The research team focused on the expression of behavior-related genes in Polistes metricus paper wasps, a species for which little genetic data was available when the study was begun. |
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| Pay it forward |
| Published: October 13, 2007, 10:29 pm |
| Tags: Hollywood, Pay It Forward, Mimi Leder, Hope, Altruism, Movie, Liberty Mutual |
| about Liberty Mutual or not.Altruism can infect other people who witness it - and what a glorious infection to have. These ads pointedly show a diverse mix of people learning from strangers to be better people. The rednecks in the early model Chevy pickup belie their stereotype, and I really like that.On a similar theme, the movie Pay It |
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| coevolution of parochial altruism and war |
| Published: October 28, 2007, 5:23 pm |
| Tags: Science, Altruism, War |
| In The Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War appearing in the October 26 issue of Science, SFI researcher Samuel Bowles and colleague Jung-Kyoo Choi of Kyungpook National University in South Korea suggest that the altruistic and warlike aspects of human nature may have a common origin. |
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| Report Urges Foreign Aid Strategy That Bridges Security, Altruism |
| Published: November 22, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Report, Urges, Foreign, Aid, Strategy, That, Bridges, Security, Altruism, U S Department Of State, George W Bush, U S Department Of Defense, United States, Condoleezza Rice, Honduras, Iraq, United States Agency For International Development, Washington Dc, Dick Lugar, Middl |
| The Bush administration must develop an overall strategy for U.S. foreign aid programs that reconciles the conflicts between humanitarian and national security objectives, according to a new report prepared by the Republican staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under the direction of... |
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