What the dead, the uncanny and the monstrous tell us about human nature
A scholar of Tibetan Buddhism discusses how she challenges her students to rethink their preconceived notions of death, the afterlife and the concept of the ‘other.’ ...
ZME Science on MSN3mon
Neanderthals and early humans started burying their dead at the same time — and it may be more about competition than honoring the dead
Strangely, around the same time, human burials in the region also ceased. For thousands of years afterward, no one in the ...
RTE Online2y
The Civilian Dead: Counting the human cost of the 1916 Rising
These people perhaps existed at the margins of society ... Lucas (British Army), thought to be rebels, were shot dead at the command of a Company Quartermaster Sergeant of the 5th Royal Dublin ...
lse3y
Do the dead have human rights?
Forensic Humanitarianism and the Politics of the Grave", promises to confront the human rights paradigm by including the dead in the category of who counts as "human". Watch: Claire Moon's exploration ...
Psychology Today1mon
The Dead Internet Theory: Why Being Online Feels Empty
In its most extreme form, the theory imagines only one human remaining online, interacting with a web entirely populated by automated programs. Dead Internet Theory may be hyperbole, but it raises ...