3 Posts found for source_year: 2007

Tocqueville noticed this back in the 1830s … almost every political question is turned into a question about rights, because the idea of rights and of individual rights [is] so deeply ingrained, not only in the Constitution or in the Bill of Rights, but also in American public culture, in the political culture.

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Author: Michael Sandel | Source: The Atlantic (October2007) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Law | Legal, Politics & Public Policy

The notion that the ability to remember new information often depends on prior knowledge of the topic is well known. Now, researchers in Edinburgh, Tokyo, and Trondheim, Norway, have conducted a study that helps answer one of the most important questions in neuroscience: Why is it that the more people know, the more they can learn?

Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Summer2007) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Math & Science

To fight today’s wars with an all-volunteer force, the U.S. Army needs more quick-thinking, strong, highly disciplined soldiers. But creating warriors out of the softest, least-willing populace in generations has required sweeping changes in basic training.

Author: Brian Mockenhaupt | Source: The Atlantic (June2007) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Military | War | Peace