While completing my doctorate in 1981, I read an article in Science by B.F. Skinner titled “Selection by Consequences.” It closely mirrored concepts described by Jacob Bronowski in “New Concepts
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The coup in Myanmar has brought into focus the relationship between China and
the new ruling junta AS a foreign correspondent these past four decades, I’ve sadly been no stranger to the horrors of ethnic cleansing and genocide. From the Balkans to African countries like Rwanda and the Darfur region of Western Sudan, I’ve witnessed the grisly evidence and spoken with both the perpetrators and survivors of these crimes against humanity. So profoundly painful are such collective traumas that the dates of their happening become indelibly etched in the minds of those who journeyed through and survived such human firestorms. In subsequent years, those same dates for many become a time for remembrance and a recommitment to the pledge “never again”.