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How Art Shapes our Nature
We live in this world usually someplace between the mundane and the absurd. But regardless of which, it's one that is probably organized to the Nth d…
10 years, 5 months ago
Witchy Woman - Salem 1682
We think we know a lot about American history. About the events that shaped the formation of the republic. And while that knowledge might get you an …
10 years, 5 months ago
The Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
It used to be, during the dark days of the Cold War, watching the Kremlin and trying to read meaning into every nuance, tea leaf and coming and going…
10 years, 5 months ago
The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles.
We’ve seen that different cities often emerge as the the center of their times. This has been true from the Greek city states, through the Roman Emp…
10 years, 5 months ago
Eric Bogosian tells of the plot that avenged the Armenian Genocide
Everything starts somewhere. Even very bad things.
Many of the tremors we face today had their roots in the Ottoman Empire, in the run up to the Fir…
10 years, 6 months ago
Can the under two hour marathon be accomplished?
This Sunday over 50,000 people will run in the NYC Marathon. For many participants, part of the appeal is to be part of something larger and more per…
10 years, 6 months ago
Is Robin Cook afraid to go to the Hospital?
Most of us will go into the hospital at some point. When we do, we might be subject to anesthesia, even for a minor procedures. What goes on while w…
10 years, 6 months ago
How Frederick Forsyth's real life exceeded his expectations
In the movie Broadcast News, William Hurt asks his colleague, as written by James L Brooks. “what do you do when your real life exceeds your drea…
10 years, 6 months ago
Sanitized Death from Above
In the desire to go to war, there is always the effort to sanitize warfare. Shock and Awe, Death from Above, are all about disconnecting man from th…
10 years, 6 months ago
Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
Before Dick Cheney, before Homeland Security, even before the Cold War itself, there existed forces within the US Government bent on shaping their ow…
10 years, 6 months ago