Sweat of (Something’s) Brow
There has been much criticism over the recent Supreme Court ruling in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Unfortunately, critics have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the Court…
Category: World of Worry
Stuff going on that is concerning
What can we learn from the Texas Rangers?
“One of the [baseball] teams has never been in the World Series. That’s the Texas Rangers. A team once owned by George W. Bush, who sold them back in 1998….
Technology Reveals our Psychosis
J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise is like MySpace pages or user comments on a blog about Glenn Beck or Michael Vick – it’s a good place to lose your faith in humanity….
Science as a Wedge
Back in the day, there were always rumors about big colleges accepting more freshman than the school could handle – but then forcing these wide-eyed fledglings through an intensely difficult…
The Midwife Toad
The Case of the Midwife Toad, by Arthur Koestler, focuses on the dispute between the neo-Darwin clan and Lamarckian proponents of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. The personal disputes that…
Why the hate…?
There is so much bigoted venom for animal-rights activists and in general for people who advocate for animal rights that it sluices its way into unexpected places. In a not-so-recent…
The Printer Moat
It is the ageless challenge in every office – how do you get people to stop printing crap they don’t need? At the end of every workday, there are printouts…