In a recent post I mentioned that Denmark puts its schoolchildren through a course on empathy, where they’re taught that other people should be treated with kindness and decency. At left we have another element of what kids in this …
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The video here has been around for several years, and provides a metaphorical look at the concept of privilege. In this regard, we all have our own stories to tell. Here’s mine: I was adopted by two sane and productive …
The meme here presents a grossly stupid and unfair comparison. A diet that consists of too much snack food hurts one person: you. The beef industry, by contrast, exists by 1) destroying vast areas of rainforest that formerly was absorbing …
I just ran into a Norwegian couple here in the U.S. on vacation. As previously mentioned, I like to compliment Scandinavians on their standing near the top of the World Happiness Rankings, and then ask them to explain how they …
I was always eager to accept invitations to chaperone my kids’ class trips to various parks around California, and especially Yosemite with it’s unequalled grandeur. Perhaps I’ll get the same opportunity when my grandchildren come of age, but that seems …
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The “word of the day” today is “pejorism,” the belief that the world is becoming worse. If a survey were taken of all literate people on Earth, I’d bet that a good 80% would identify as pejorists, primarily on the …
Why has the U.S. fallen to its lowest happiness ranking ever? Well, most Americans harbor at least one, often many, deep concerns about their country’s ongoing capacity to support a strong quality of life. Some of us are worried about …
On an almost daily basis, readers send me news articles like the one at left that raise the question: why are Trump supporters so much more likely than progressives to be involved in criminal activities, and, as an example, sex …
There is no question that the world needs a bumper crop of peace-makers, rather than a few more billionaires demanding tax cuts at the expense of the common man. But how could this possibly come about? In particular, who are …
Bernie Sanders has this to say on the graph here: “Stress kills.” To that I would add the multiplicity of other stuff that kills poor people: malnutrition, shoddy healthcare, living in communities whose air and water are polluted, dangerous professions, …
