I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.

A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?

Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.