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Fundamentally you can boil down psychopathy to a diminished capacity for empathy. If we could discover the mechanism for empathy, we might be able to...

Should it be used? A forever question with any illness or personality trait that seems to be a danger to the person or to others. Same with physical...

Yes. The question seems founded on a faulty premise, that "psychopathy" is a well-defined, binary state, identifiable by some sort of "psychopath...

I've often heard people say this, but we have never yet found such a limit to any scientific discipline, theoretical or applied. I seriously doubt...

Psychopathy, like sociopathy, is not a recognized medical diagnosis. It's pop culture term used to cover a wide range of personality disorders and...

Yes. I doubt any would consent. It might even be administered in the womb. But there would be a kind of arms race involved; no one would want to be...

Are you asking whether it should be given to psychopaths, involuntarily?

I may have mentioned this story before, but one night I called for my cat from my master bedroom’s sliding glass door to the back porch. My cat ran...

Provided there is not a limit to advancement (my bold) It may turn out that it's just not practically feasible to venture beyond our own solar...

I’m not sure why you would think that. Additionally, I don’t think that what we call psychopathy is really a single condition, but rather a way...

From what I read, her going ballistic seems like a pretty good indication that you'd be doing the right thing... The previous ex seems to be OK, if...

But at least her car is in the garage? We have 2 garages here and her car is in neither of them. One garage houses my classic car which is in an...

(emphasis added) That need not be just professional astronomers or major observatories either. Amateur astronomers regularly track small spacecraft...

Bummer. My mother did it better. She's afraid of mice. And we had a loyal cat, who brought us gifts. Like mice. Dead or alive. So she brought a...

Well, it has been 60 years, but only a relative handful of people have actually been in space. I am hopeful we are about to get out of this far too...

Reading that article, I chuckled at this sentence (I assume either a translation issue or the author not understanding the concept): Had the...

So where is it?? Why haven't the astronomers of the world confirmed, say, changes in acceleration or direction of a sky object? It should already be...

I believe it's a solvable problem. The development of environmental science will continue to advance just as all our sciences do, as we gain and...

It could be related to how often the comet's orbit brings it to the star, thereby causing some of the ice to evaporate.

On Venus, it rains from sulfuric acid, on Jupiter - helium rains and soft ammonia hail. On Mars, it snows from carbon dioxide or dry ice. On Titan,...

I get freaked out when I see eyes that don't reflect the same thing or are reflections of eyes. Or when hair or skin has a highlight in the same tone...

Tonight there were major protests in Montreal, people burning trash in trash cans and lighting up fire works to protest the curfew there because of...

Thanks. I fixed it.

I expect it means there is no break out of the details of what the spending is directed to in the statement. I’ve seen that referred to as a...

One winter I lived in a cabin that had a small coal stove in the basement with a grate above it to let the heat rise into the living area. I was...

The cyclone actually strengthened to a Cat. 3 cyclone before it crossed the coast. It came a bit closer to us than expected but we have only had some...

Betelgeuse is still approximately equal to Aldebaran in magnitude. A few on AAVSO are listing it as slightly brighter than Betelgeuse. My 62 year...