Reposted from YES! Magazine. Holly Dressel Should the United States implement a more inclusive, publicly funded health care system? That’s a big debate throughout the country. But even as it […]
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Dale E. Lehman According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, patriotism is defined as “love for or devotion to one’s country.” It’s a very simple definition that most of us intuitively understand. […]
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Today, we repost a review of Richard Dawkins’ new book from Harper’s Magazine. Marilynne Robinson Richard Dawkins is an Oxford professor and the author of a series of best-selling books […]
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William Shanley In an effort to truly grasp the infinite abundance, potential and power of what is within and without us, let’s take a closer look at the science. It’ll […]
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James Howard Kunstler I got an email from a reader in the banking sector who said that he generally likes this blog but I that I was “way off” in […]
Continue readingOn Intelligence (a Book Review)
Coert Visser We often routinely talk about intelligence and we attempt to measure it for a variety of purposes. But how well do we know what it is? Jeff Hawkins […]
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The following is an essay penned in 2005. Aaron Clauset A recent article in the New York Times, which is itself a review of a review article that recently appeared […]
Continue readingTowards Human Unity
In 1914 after four years of concentrated yoga at Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo launched Arya, a 64 page monthly review. For the next six and a half years this became the […]
Continue readingA Nobel Mandate
John Dear “We will never win a war against terror as long as the conditions for poverty and injustice remain,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu said. “Poverty breeds terrorism. So we should […]
Continue readingWhy the Survivalists Have Got It Wrong
Rob Hopkins I have very little time for the survivalist response to peak oil, and on the back of a new article about it, Preparing for a Crash: Nuts and […]
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