Genetic variant that can lead to severe impulsivity identified Date: December 27, 2010 Source: NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Summary: Scientists have found that a genetic variant of a brain receptor molecule may contribute to violently impulsive behavior when people who carry it are under the influence of alcohol. Share: A multinational research team led by scientists at t
Low incomes make poor more conservative, study finds By George Lowery, Cornell University You might think that in a time when more money is concentrated in fewer hands and incomes vary wildly from billions to subsistence, poor people might increase their support for government policies that offer some help. Not in America. New research findings add complexity to the basic assumption that humans ac
Europe's mainstream political parties are engaged in a worsening feud over how to deal with the growing power of extreme rightwing anti-immigrant movements. Amid a backlash against immigration that has shaken Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden in recent months, governments of the centre-right or centre-left appear at a loss to counter the appeal of extremist populists who have moved from
The Chinese authorities are about to begin the country's first national census in 10 years. More than six million workers have been hired for the huge task in the world's most populous country. The authorities hope the census will clarify the number of migrant workers, which by some estimates is said to be more than 200 million. Earlier this year, in a keynote speech, Premier Wen Jiabao said migra
To its practitioners, politics is about power: getting it, keeping it and using it. But for the nation, the basic purpose of politics is to conciliate. If everyone agreed on everything, politics would be unnecessary. So would democracy and elections. A dictator could govern by universally accepted preferences and policies. Without consensus, politics is how we resolve our differences short of reso
最近日本の一部で異様にネオリベ風味のベーシックインカム論が流行していますが、肝心のヨーロッパではもっとまともな議論が主流であるということを、欧州議会が最近採択した決議をさらっと一瞥するとよく分かります。 今年7月16日付で欧州議会が採択した「欧州における貧困との闘いと包摂的社会の促進におけるミニマムインカムに関する決議」がここにありますが、 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A7-2010-0233+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN >3. Demands that real progress be made on the adequacy of minimum income schemes, so as to be capable of lift
Nationalist protest in China Doth we protest too much? CHINA'S official news agency, Xinhua, usually prefers to play down the extent of any public protest. But its reporting on recent anti-Japanese unrest has erred on the other side. On September 18th, some Chinese and foreign observers had predicted that Chinese might take to the streets in large numbers to protest against Japan's continuing dete
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