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Capitalism vs. The Climate
It was actually Winston Churchill, not Rahm Emanuel, who said that we should never let a serious crisis go to waste.
A crisis often creates a great o…
11 years, 6 months ago
How the Obesity Crisis Is Complicating America's Love Life
Some of you may have seen the story recently that marriage is at an all time low in America. We also know that two out of three Americans are overwe…
11 years, 6 months ago
Terrorism and the Search for Justice
For decades, it seems, we've read and watched stories about suicide bombers in the Middle East. We process the information without emotion, as we do …
11 years, 6 months ago
Superintelligence
Whether we are thinking about our smart phones, or HAL in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, we are usually deeply conflicted about artificial intelligence. W…
11 years, 6 months ago
The no problem, problem
Revolutions are often exciting. The stir change, mobilize ideas, and are often at the cutting edge of excitement. Yet what happens after revolution…
11 years, 6 months ago
I'm not the boss of me
The common portrayal of Millennials is as generation that is narcissistic, self absorbed, entitled and demanding. Yet they are almost 90 million str…
11 years, 6 months ago
Daring: My Passages
Kierkegaard said that “life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” Such is the powerful value of memoir and reflection
Som…
11 years, 6 months ago
How Change Happens
We often say that actions have consequence. So do ideas. And we don’t always know the full extent of those consequences. Just as the science of split…
11 years, 6 months ago
A new perspective on the Middle East
When we think and talk about the Middle East today, we look at it terms of the religious and ethnic strife and extremism that define today's conflict…
11 years, 6 months ago
Cosby
The recent suicide of Robin Williams puts into bold perspective that we really don’t know very much about the inner lives of the people that make us …
11 years, 6 months ago