Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I’m reading 1491 by Charles C. Mann and recommend it highly. This bit reminded me of a popular misconception about people in earlier times:
In contemporary hunting and gathering societies, anthropologists have learned, gathering by women usually supplies most of the daily diet. The meat provided by male hunters is a kind of luxury, a special [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog: The Psychology of Being Rich
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I changed the subtitle of the blog from “30 years to save the world” to “save the world by 2012!” because “30 years” tells procrastinators to watch more TV. If we don’t want the end of human civilization in thirty years, we must be moving in a new direction within five.
The entertainment industry is facing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers - health - 17 January 2007 - New Scientist: “It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Emma says my first take on this subject sounded judgmental. I only meant it to sound balanced, so here’s Take Two:
Unhappiness and clinical depression are two very different things that are easy to confuse. If your brain chemistry is off, psychiatrists are your solution. If you think your unhappiness is clinical depression, or if people [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2007 | No Comments »
“In the seventies, people predicted an Ice Age in the near future.” The quick answer: No.
See Was an imminent Ice Age predicted in the ’70’s by scientists, in scientific journals? No.
Thanks, Owlmirror!
Posted in seeker, tagged vegetarianism on January 30, 2007 | 5 Comments »
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants…. A little meat won’t kill you, though it’s better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you’re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That’s what I mean by the recommendation to eat ‘food.’” Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemna, [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged democracy, Israel, religion on January 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s an excellent question asked in Israel’s Arab problem hits home | Salon.com. The writer is a Jew who is not quite as objective as he might be. He writes, for example, “Arabs living in what was to become the state of Israel either fled or were expelled (this depends on whose narrative you buy, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Girls charged with conspiring to kill classmates, Oprah, Tom Cruise, and the Energizer Bunny - CNN.com
This is not an Onion article. Sometimes I wish I lived in a sane country.
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Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »
In Phil’s Little Blog on the Prairie: Do UUs Need an Out Group?, this question is asked:
Is there no difference between a UU and a secular person? After all, the original Humanist Manifesto states that “the distinction between the sacred and the secular can no longer be maintained.”
If there’s no distinction between the sacred [...]
