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Category: Sustainability
Sustainable Living
In the quest for messaging to communicate the need for a sustainable way of life, sometimes we come across artistry that requires no explanation. This is such a time. Well done, MindCore.
Trump: What’s Next?
From the BBC: Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK’s former ambassador in the US.
The Development of the Mind in the Evolution of Humanity
As presented here, it appears that the ancient Babylonians were aware of what we know as the Pythagorean theorem about 2000 years before the famous Greek mathematician.
We All Want Good News, But We’d Prefer It To Be True
We’re all rooting for a healthy return of the rhino population, but this, really? The rhino gestation period is 16 months, and the population is up 10X? Are they having litters like rats?
Tagged with: population
It Takes a Nation To Raise a Child
It may seem that there is nothing to say about the life sentence that avowed Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. received for deliberately driving his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters at the 2017 rally in Charlottesville. After all, …
Tagged with: mutually felt racial tension and distrust
It’s a Sin To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird was published on this date in 1960. As country lawyer Atticus Finch tells his daughter Scout, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy…but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a …
Tagged with: leave food and water in the Mexican deserts
In What Can Be Seen as a Move Toward Sustainability, Russian Orthodox Church Considers a Ban on Blessing Weapons of Mass Destruction
I thought this was a joke, right, but…..no. The fellow on the right is shown here dispensing holy water on a hydrogen bomb. As usual, I’m loath to challenge religious beliefs, but I have to ask: Who in hell blesses …
Ethical Relativity
According to The Writer’s Almanac, it’s the birthday of anthropologist Franz Boas, born in 1858. Boaz stressed the need to study four fields — ethnology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and archaeology — before making any generalizations about any one culture.
Tagged with: Ethical Relativity
We Need To Ask Horrible People: “Do You Think This Is Going To End Well?”
From today’s Daily Stoic: The Stoics were not unacquainted with awful people. They saw tyrants. They saw cheats. They saw toxic egomaniacs and insatiable ambitions. And what was their reaction to most of these people? Aside from a general wariness and …
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Tagged with: sustainable mode of living
