By Michael Hudson (First of two parts) Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urba...
By Carole Crumley Hierarchies are a familiar form of human organization where individuals and groups of high social status are ranked above others and...
The sight and sound of a bumblebee or a honey bee buzzing from flower to flower in an alpine meadow or a roadside planting is calming to many, yet it ...
Birdsongs have inspired poets and lovers, becoming one of the philosophical focal points in ancient Greece and Rome. They have also led to several lon...
Power in human societies is often viewed as hierarchical, meaning that it’s tiered and ranked. This view doesn’t fully capture the complexity of how p...
How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ranking of elements. Another i...
For two centuries, archaeologists, historians, and social scientists studied human societies in search of the origins of hierarchy—a layered structure...
By Institute of Contemporary Economics Right off the bat, we would like to make clear that the Institute advocates for and promotes the protection of ...
Last of three parts It also seems that bad dreams, which may be related to emotional problems in waking life, are recalled more frequently and accurat...