by Erik Kain on November 9, 2011
It’s no secret that the highly anticipated new first-person-shooter, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was going to inspire some intense reactions from fans, but the stories surrounding the game’s release are just getting more and more bizarre. In France, not one but two shipments of the game were robbed at gunpoint. Thieves made off [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 28, 2011
Steven Pinker has an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on the decline of violence across the world, and the decline of war. Pinker suggests a number of reasons for the decline in war, from the state’s monopoly on violence to the rise of global commerce. He also includes this chart: Charts like [...]
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