Michel de Montaigne: What Do I Know?
by Glenn R. Geist "By Diverse means we arrive at the same end." Thus begin the essays of Michel de Montaigne. It's both hopeful and...
Of Death and Family
Of Death and Family is a strange title for an article, I know. Makes it sounds kind of ominous. I guess you will have to read and...
A Tale of Two Ricks and New Mexico’s 47 percent
This past Saturday, October 11th, 2014, Rick Lopez, running for state treasurer, told us all an admirable story about how he grew up from very poor...
Politics: Special Favors For Special People
When I ask this question, it is usually after I am forced to witness yet again, public servants and citizens contorting themselves into “Pork Whores”....
Are You Afraid Of Death?
Amongst the conversations of these scientist arose the question, “do you fear death?” This led me me to wonder, how many people actually do fear death?
Motivating Ten Year Old Kids by Embarassment
I have been teaching at the post secondary level since 1974 which means I am an old codger. Generally speaking most of my students expect me to be grumpy, strict and generally a hard ass about every thing they do, and maybe I am. I don’t think I am, but who knows, I don’t take classes from me and I usually know the answers to the questions I ask students
Digital Rage: Don’t Engage the Crazy
Anonymity and incivility on the high seas of the cyber-sphere. Don’t say things on the internet you wouldn’t say straight to someone’s face.
Is Property Damage a Good Reason to Stop Occupy?
The more those in “authority”–whether in the financial or public sector–try to quell the protests, will simply lead to more damage.
Tattoo Barbie!
Meet 21st Century Barbie—with tattoos.
America’s Shame: Abused Children
Violence against children significantly more acute and widespread in the United States than anywhere else in the industrialized world.
Generation Y and Occupy Wall Street
Generation Y comes of age, and with no job to go to sets out to make a difference for us all by thawing the ground ahead of a Global Spring.
Apple’s Steve Jobs on death, in his own words
Steve Jobs: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”
Ghastly Greasy Fast “Food”
What contains 2,003 calories,125 grams of fat, 38 grams saturated fat, and 2138 mg sodium (or more) in a single meal?
The Culture of Climate Change Denial
Climate change and the deniers–it’s not about the science. It’s cultural.