Anthropologists conjecture that individualism originated in healthier environments whereas collectivism was a defense against germs. Seems as plausible an explanation as any.(Read more...)
A friend just sent me on this link, about a young Yale student, performance artist, i.e. the body as the art medium. This is the concept shared with the performance piece in Grand Central Station. "The student, Aliza Shvarts, was quoted in the the Yale Daily News as saying that the project was meant to explore t...(Read more...)
Discovery of yet another big reserve of oil, this time in Brazil, brings back this alternative viewing of the nature of oil, just where it comes from, how it is created....... (Read more...)
Its hilarious to read the irony of Majid Ezzati... "Ezzati says he saw such disparities after the fall of the Soviet Union and after the social networks fell apart in Eastern Europe." Ezzati says "That monitoring should be telling us something about what sort of interventions, what sort of policies can reverse this an...(Read more...)
[Get ready to hold your noses, folks!] But America's top car dealer says what we really need in this country is high gas prices—something in the neighborhood of $6 a gallon—if we ever really want to tackle the critical issues of the day: global warming and our oil addiction. "The biggest lie in America politics today i...(Read more...)
San Francisco is considering a new law that would punish people for not providing coerced labor free of charge. Their justification for this is in the name of already-subsidized recycling.(Read more...)
