Currently, complexity is derived from reports provided by the controllers andpilots involved in the incidents, from which the mid-air collision risk is estimated.These incidents are extremely rare events, which make them infeasible to deriveany reliable statistics. Furthermore, not all incidents are reported, making it diffi-cult to infer how many true incidents have really occurred. Finally, t…
The termhate speechrecognises a wide range of harmful social practices anddiscourses. Let us take, for instance, Islamophobic blogs, cross burnings, racialepithets, or dehumanising pictures of Jews. If all these social activities fallunder hate speech, they must have certain elements or features in common. Itmight therefore be reasonable to think that a definition of hate speech shouldcomprise …
These observations by François-Xavier Fauvelle appear in the introduction to his history of medieval Africa, The Golden Rhinoceros. He notes that one of the challenges of writing such a history is the lack of any such continuity of memory among many of the great cities of sub-Saharan Africa in the period. An example of this is the extraordinary remains of the city known as Great Zim…