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The short story involves Mr. and Mrs. White and their adult son, Herbert. Sergeant-Major Morris, a friend who served with the British Army in India, introduces them to a mummified monkey's paw. An old fakir placed a spell on the paw, so that it would grant three wishes.

The Monkey's Paw - Wikipedia

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Updated 8 days ago

Here's a new term for you. It's called a holon (from the Greek term "whole"). A holon is simply something that is both a whole and a part. Holons are a useful idea when thinking about resilience and complex systems....

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Updated 18 days ago

Kintsugi , also known as Kintsukuroi , is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

Kintsugi - Wikipedia

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Updated 21 days ago

Chesterton's Fence says, in short, that you should never let someone reform something (a rule, an institution) if he tells you that the thing doesn't serve any purpose. The philosopher G.K. Chesterton vividly illustrated his idea by asking us to imagine a fence strung up across a road, representing

Chesterton's Fence

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Updated 23 days ago

Regality theory describes how war and other collective dangers have a profound influence on the psychological disposition of people, and how this in turn influences the structure and cultural values of a society. People who experience war or perceive that their social group is in danger will develop a psychological response called regal.

Regality theory - Wikipedia

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Updated 25 days ago

Tertius gaudens (translated as rejoicing third in English) refers to a situation in which one party benefits from a conflict among two others. The term is often attributed to the German sociologist Georg Simmel.

Tertius gaudens - Wikipedia

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Updated 25 days ago

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