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Health & Fitness > Medicine Development Children and medication: Generation "Med"?: 3 of 72
Noted personality psychologist David Kiersey describes the over-prescription of Ritalin for so-called "ADD" and "ADHD" as simple child abuse: the identification of normal child behavior as a "problem" by persons of a somewhat different temperament, followed up by its vicious and self-righteous suppression using dangerous chem... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Economic Values Technology's impact on society: 3 of 34
Any technology changes society. And it's important to realize that, if we'd known about all consequences of the change in advance, we'd have most likely rejected it.Consider the average citizen of the most developed nations in 1905. She or he would know about airplanes, dirigibles, very large battleships, but would not have s... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Gender Issues Marriage for homosexuals: 5 of 50
Whatever the arguments for or against same-sex marriages, they aren't Biblical and they aren't Christian. They're cultural. While the Old Testament contains condemnations of homosexual acts, it assumes as a part of that condemnation that it's necessarily part of an illicit relationship not sanctioned by society. That is, forn... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Bush Administration George W. Bush's legacy: 9 of 84
George W. Bush has been compared to Woodrow Wilson, compared himself to Harry S. Truman, but began his administration amidst comparisons to Ronald Reagan and to his own father, George H. W. Bush. He's also often accused of being a proxy for his Vice President, Dick Cheney - not the first man to be told he's led by his dick!Th... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Global warming: Financial implications: 2 of 17
There are two sets of financial implications from global warming. One for the fossil fuel extraction industries and power generators, and one for everyone else. The power and coal and oil and gas companies make money from waste, they profit more with every kilowatt or gallon they sell. Not only do they have no motive to cut e... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism War against terror protects homefront: 1 of 8
Consider trying to have a war "on" or "against" an abstract noun like "terror".It's been tried before. Wars on drugs. On poverty. Notice a pattern? Abstract nouns tend to win these wars. And it's fairly obvious why: they have plenty of places to hide, bullets and bombs go right through them (being abstract), and an idea or ha... More..
Sciences > Astronomy Better names for our planet: 1 of 7
Terra, it's Latin name, may be the best we can manage in the Latin alphabet. It's the root of the word "terrestrial" (our ecology) and "terran" (ourselves, among other species). It isn't quite as religiously suggestive as "Gaia" and it isn't as astronomical as "Sol-3". The Greek word "planet" is itself problematic, meaning "w... More..
Education > Graduate Studies How valuable is an MBA?: 2 of 11
My perspective on this is from working with MBAs. Although I could have spent the time to get one, I never felt the need, as I have a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and have been involved in a lot of high finance software projects, consulting jobs in business process redesign and startup ventures, and other challenging type... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Drug Laws & Prevention A case to legalize drugs in America: 14 of 60
"When our remote ancestors moved out of the trees and on to the grasslands, they increasingly encountered hooved beasts who ate vegetation. These beasts became a major source of potential sustenance. Our ancestors also encountered the manure of these same wild cattle and the mushrooms that grow in it. Several of these grassla... More..
Health & Fitness > Nutrition Basics Why blueberries are good for you: 2 of 7
Blueberry, properly section Cyanococcus of genus Vaccinium, grows wild only from Newfoundland to West Virginia and Michigan, where they sometimes form natural blueberry barrens dominated by this "superfruit". Northern Highbush Blueberries (corymbosum) are most commonly cultivated but many varieties now grow all over the world... More..