Analytical Sociology, Mafias, Signalling Theory and Applications, Trust and Mimicry, Violent Extremists
More hedgehog than fox. A self-presentation
Annual reports: 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
Former: Yiu Chu Kong, Federico Varese, Heather Hamill, Teela Sanders, Declan Hill, Marina Tzvetkova
Current: Mark Starbuck, Pavan Mamidi
"Mimicry in civil wars" - a workshop - Collège de France, Paris, 7-8 December 2007
Absence of sex and suicide bombers - AN IMPORTANT CORRECTION
"Je suis desgousté de maistrise et active et passive" (Michel de Montaigne, Les Essais)
"N'attendez pas le Jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous le jours" (Albert Camus, The Fall)
'There is no basis in scientific fact or in the human gene code for the notion that skin colour will be predictive of intelligence.' (Craig Venter)
The murder rate in Sicily in the period 2002-2006 was 1.3 every 100,000 inhabitants. This is the lowest rate ever recorded on the island. In Italy as a whole in the same period it was 1.1. The Sicilian rate is now lower than that of Scotland, which in the period 2000-2002 was 2.3.
Sources:
www.interno.it/mininterno/export/sites/default/it/assets/files/14/0900_rapporto_criminalita.pdf
www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/12/13133031/30384