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PLUTO: a novel way to think about risk

Pluto may be a former planet, but it's also a novel way to think about risk! On July 14th 2015, a small spacecraft will buzz a former planet in the less fashionable outskirts of our solar system. A lot of people will get excited by this, apparently thinking that the first close-up view of a lump o

Freud's 5 Stages of Psychosexual Development

Freud's theory of psychosexual development states that we go through five critical phases in the course of our growing up. Our sex drive, which Freud called the libido, is concentrated in a different erogenous zone at each stage. The phases are called: oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. If