(For the record, I eat a whole foods plant-based diet that doesn’t include animal flesh or animal products such as milk, cheese, butter, eggs, etc. In other words, I’m a vegan. Continue reading GMOs: Are They the Liberal Equivalent of Climate Change Denial?
Read an interesting column in the Guardian the other day in which Oliver Burkeman, argued that what is often called hope is really deception—hoping for things which are virtually impossible. Continue reading The Case Against Hope
Francis Bacon
New York Times columnist and Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman recently wrote a fine piece, “Knowledge Isn’t Power.” Continue reading Knowledge and Power: Our Retreat from the Enlightenment
Wilhelm Wundt (seated) with colleagues in his psychological laboratory, the first of its kind.
Let me begin by stating unequivocally that we are all flawed psyches; we are all damaged, we all deviate from psychic harmony. The world is full of damaged psyches. Continue reading The World is Full of Damaged Psyches: You Will Live Better if You Avoid Them