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  1  The  definition  and  causes  of  friendly  fire,  along  with  historical  examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire

  2  A  dictionary  entry  on  “summum  bonum”:  http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/summum_bonum

  3  Beer Advocate’s description and assessment of Brooklyn Brewery’s Black Ops imperial stout: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/45/40149

  4  A sophisticated discussion of the mathematics underlying Simpson’s Paradox: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-simpson/

  5  Highlights  from  the  2009  Wimbledon  men’s  final:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAu_woONfUs

  6  A substantive overview of Kant’s moral philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral/

  7  The  entry  on  Oskar  Schindler  at  the  United  States  Holocaust  Memorial Museum: www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/schindler/

  8  A  review of  the  concept of  the golden mean  in classical philosophy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_mean_(philosophy)

  9  The life, times, and philosophy of Cicero, the greatest orator of ancient Rome: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ancient-political/#CicRomRep

10  A  news  report  on  the  arrest  of  Sicilian  mob  capo  Salvatore  Lo  Piccolo  and  the Mafia’s “ten commandments”: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/ 7086716.stm 

11  A discussion of the meaning and origins of omertà, the honor code of silence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omert%C3%A0

12  A  substantial  biography  of  famed  mob  informant  Joseph  Valachi:  www. trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/valachi//index_1. html

13  An overview of The Who’s 1967 album The Who Sell Out: www.thewho.com/discography/index/album/albumId/62

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14  The home page for The World Naked Bike Ride: http://worldnakedbikeride.org/15  A  more  in-depth  look  at  Aristotle’s  function  argument  and  conception  of  

the human good: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/#HumGoo FunArg

16  An  overview  of  the  behavioral  psychology’s  good  Samaritan  experiment: www.experiment-resources.com/helping-behavior.html

17  The  Stanford  prison  experiment  is  presented  and  discussed  in  a  video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwfNs1pqG0&feature=related

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