tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post4231527497253699095..comments2023-10-10T08:02:18.073-04:00Comments on Rationally Speaking: Michael's PicksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-24716471827429905332011-09-30T03:14:15.273-04:002011-09-30T03:14:15.273-04:00....and, oddly enough, the Unusual Deaths page see.......and, oddly enough, the Unusual Deaths page seems to bear out Steven Pinker's thesis - reading through from antiquity to modern time, fewer people seem to be done to unusual deaths by their fellows and more by their own hands - or imprudences.Cavall de Querhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17687910584661433398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-47170945435083352382011-09-29T13:35:46.185-04:002011-09-29T13:35:46.185-04:00The unsolved deaths page has two notable omissions...The unsolved deaths page has two notable omissions, at least as far as personal agents of cause:<br />1. In the 1925-49 period, it's lacking Judge Joseph Crater, surely the most famous unsolved death of the first half of the 20th century in the U.S.<br />2. in the period 1950-74, no Dag Hammarskjold? Note - for those unaware, his brother had mining interests in Katanga, adding to the likelihood he was murdered by deliberately caused plane crash.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-29450982534332180242011-09-29T13:22:42.649-04:002011-09-29T13:22:42.649-04:00It's "funny" that Pinker bases his b...It's "funny" that Pinker bases his book on a book by a European Jew written in the middle of 1939, to claim that violence has gone down. Rather, in non-democratic societies, violence has been institutionalized even as it has risen.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.com