Happy 4th of July to all of America the Beautiful! For some years, I have had the following Japanese baseball terms on my computer. I pulled them out last night to share with a friend, and began thinking about them in terms of the 4th of July. It seems fitting; we typically describe baseball as … [Read more…]
To understand our past, historical context is a critical starting point. But to design the future, it cannot also be the endpoint.
Too many people, particularly fans, have an ‘entitlement mentality’: they expect to win simply because they expect to win.
A bit of speculative etymology demonstrating language as phenotype. It all starts at birth. Literally…
Before we can fix government, we need to fix Congress. The problem in Congress is minority rule, but the privacy of the ballot box could restore political moderation.
Too often, gender equity pursues a masculine success of domination and pointless ambition, ironically making ‘equal rights’ offensively anti-egalitarian.
The concept of majority rule is essential for democracy. The problem is, what we think is a majority is really a majority illusion.
Some years back, conservative columnist George F. Will argued that colleges are too liberal.
If liberalism means the freedom to consider new ideas, what else would we expect?
In the past when we were living on the edge, sabotaging children was the only prudent course of action.
Society vs humanity: in contrast to the community, the society is self-serving and exclusive, and therefore anti-humane.
The evidence of wasp evolution around my home is an example of animal urbanization, i.e., how living things adapt to encroaching humanity.
Professional arrogance is dangerous: We ignore the knowledge and wisdom of common people at our own risk.
Could tobacco addiction and the perfume industry be a legacy from the Black Death of the 14th century?
Physical, emotional, sexual abuse; what about intellectual abuse? Modern education begins in the medieval, when there was no respect for freedom of thought.
The narcissism in animals can help us understand the narcissism in people, and our tensions between competition and cooperation, evil and good.
The Independent Press Award gives Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths its 14th Prize.
The Eric Hoffer Award announced last week that Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths has been named 1st Runner-Up for Legacy Nonfiction. This is the third Eric Hoffer award, as the book was previously named to the Short List for the Grand Prize, and as a Finalist for the Montaigne Medal. The book also currently enjoys a 4.9 … [Read more…]
The Eric Hoffer Book Awards has named Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths as a Finalist for the Montaigne Medal. This recognition is the third award for the book.
Allopatric speciation & sympatric speciation examine mating barriers and geographic location; alloneossic taxonation adds in adaptation and niche shift.
Industrial melanism illustrates evolutionary pressure/selection pressure. But in punctuated equilibria and large evolution, selection pressure won’t work.
Punctuated equilibria makes a case for shifting from microevolution & macroevolution, to ‘small evolution’ & ‘large evolution.’
