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Nicholas Wright’s WARHEAD is a groundbreaking new book that shows listeners how wars are a consequence of common brain systems that deal with conflict, competition, and social cooperation. Journeying through ten brain regions, Wright begins his explanation at the base of the brain, the brainstem, climbing step-by-step until he reaches the frontal pole looking at how each region influences the human propensity towards war. While brain anatomy provides the framework, each chapter is brought to life through battle stories from history.

Why did France surrender to the Nazis despite having a superior army? How has Ukraine stood firm against Russia? In Warhead, Nicholas Wright delves into our brains to find out why humans fight, lose and win wars. Drawing upon his extensive expertise in neuroscience, combined with his strategic advisory role at the Pentagon, Wright reveals that, whether we like it or not, our brains are wired for conflict and survival. In an increasingly dangerous world, our success and our values depend on recognizing this and, if necessary, taking advantage of it.

Stoicism is tailored for the “good life.” It doesn’t emphasize abstract, philosophical musings, like many other philosophies that might seem irrelevant to day-to-day life. It doesn’t require an education, a stellar IQ, or wealth to begin following its principles. One of its major thinkers was actually a slave, and another was an emperor. Clearly it’s a philosophy as applicable to those at top as to those at the bottom, to those who’ve known the best of life as to those who’ve known the worst, to the rich as to the poor, to the healthy as to the sick - because there are no true obstacles to bettering ourselves.

Alex and Misae share an impossible love from impossible and opposite perspectives. His hunger blood drives him to the desert to feast on the blood of rodents rather than risk harm to Misae, but Misae is unwilling to allow his exile and together they must find a solution that is stronger than the blood.