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Hollywood actor cum producer Robert Evans once said that success is where opportunity meets preparedness. I guess as much as out of necessity and a desire to communicate, I write to prepare. Just in case.

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Food & Drink > Diet, Health & Organic Foods Shopping for the vegan diet: 1 of 17
Whether it's for health or environmental reasons, animal rights issues or simply to improve one's figure, more and more people are adopting vegetarianism as a way of life. As a consequence, vegetarian options are increasingly available in grocery stores and restaurants. Even take-out burger joints are offering soy or other ... More..
Celebrations & Holidays > Unique Gifts Gift ideas for skateboarders: 1 of 17
Skateboarding is a cultural phenomenon. In the span of a few decades, the skateboard has moved from a barely rideable kids' toy, in league with the hula hoop or pogo stick, to a precision instrument used by a broad cross-section of the population. It is no longer just a plank of wood with some wheels attached. Skateboardi... More..
Arts & Humanities > Philosophy (Other) Logic and reason: 1 of 10
The difference between logic and reason is not unlike the difference between movement and locomotion. All locomotion is movement, but not all movement is locomotion. A plant moves, but it does not locomote because it is rooted in the ground. Likewise, all logic is reason, but not all reason conforms to the standards of logic.... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Conservation Do individual consumer choices make a difference in creating a more sustainable society?: 2 of 16
What is a society if not all of its basic components, grouped together? As individuals, we are like cells to an organism. It follows that as individuals, we make a difference to how the organism functions. If you can believe that humans have the ability to affect the planet, then logically, you have to believe in the power of... More..
Food & Drink > Diet, Health & Organic Foods Which is more important when it comes to health food: Taste or nutrition?: 5 of 36
I'm pretty sure the answer here is right in the question.Which is more important when it comes to health food? Well, assuming the opposite of health food is food containing added salt or sugar, chemical additives, trans fats and the like, then it is clear that most of the things that are bad for your health regarding convent... More..
Arts & Humanities > Awareness & Reality Rationalism of knowledge: 2 of 13
Okay, we've established that nothing is a given, there is no black and white, etc. We know the drill. But in reality, where we live, work for a living, and have to get things done, we need tools to make the day go more smoothly and perhaps even to create and innovate. Rationalism is one of these tools. Rationalism, in a nutsh... More..
Sciences > Biology (Other) Do you believe in the Primordial Soup theory?: 1 of 5
Any scientific model is just an approximation of the truth, and as it stands, the theory that life evolved from a melange of its most basic components, out of a so-called "primordial soup", is a pretty good one. For starters, it is a logical introduction to the story we have seen in the fossil record, with more complex organi... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Thoughts on God Is God an invention of man's mind or true being?: 19 of 62
God is a model. A model is neither absolute truth, nor pure invention. Rather it is a blending of the two in pursuit of knowledge. In the same way that Einstein's theory of relativity is a way of describing an aspect of reality to the best of our current ability, so too is any religious concept. When we say we are telling... More..
Food & Drink > Diet, Health & Organic Foods Organic food versus non-organic: 1 of 3
The term organic, when used to describe food products, simply means natural. It means no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, hormones, or other such drastic manipulations of nature, and basically represents how humans have produced food for almost all of the score or more thousands of years since we discovered agriculture. ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Water shortage: Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink: 2 of 5
The line, "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink" comes from the epic 19th Century Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, and it refers to the life-or-death situation faced by the protagonist. He is stranded at sea on an Antarctic voyage, surrounded by water as far as the eye can see, yet una... More..