Oxytocin—Love potion No. 1 In the new issue of Nature, the neuroscientist Larry Young offers a grand unified theory of love. […] Could any discovery be more welcome? This is what humans have sought ever since Odysseus ordered his crew to tie him to the mast while sailing past the Sirens. Long before scientists identified neuroreceptors, long [...]

Großartiger Artikel über Hannah Arendt im New Yorker: „The more you realize that war criminals might be ordinary people, the more afraid you become,“ […] A dignified individual existence, she believes, requires distance from others, the „interspace“ that she described in the Hamburg speech. Compassion is dangerous, in her view, because „not unlike love,“ it [...]

da frage ich mich, warum ich tue, was ich so tue. Gestern zum Beispiel war so ein Tag: Im Grundlagenseminar Einführung in die Friedens‑ und Konfliktforschung stellen die Gruppen nach einem Semester Arbeit nun auf kreative Art und Weise bestimmte Konflikte vor. Gestern gab es den Irak-Konflikt und den Konflikt/Bürgerkrieg um die Blutdiamanten in Sierra Leone [...]