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War of the Worlds: How the Media “Creates” News 0
- Culture
- November 2, 2015
Last Friday marked the anniversary of Orson Welles’ famous radio play War of the Worlds, which used news bulletins to tell of an alien invasion on American soil. Like many Americans, I first heard this story as a little girl and was fascinated by the mass hysteria which supposedly broke out across the country when
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The Homogenization of America 0
- Culture
- November 2, 2015
On a trip to Oklahoma I arrived at the airport and was taken to a suburban retail area for a meal. Suddenly it occurred to me that I could very well have been back in any part of the United States. Wherever I go in the USA I find the same retail developments with the
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“More Truly Educated Out of College Than In It.”0
- Education
- November 2, 2015
It seems you can’t turn around these days without seeing some type of article or list describing the top 10 ways to get into the best college or grad program. Such a mentality stems from the idea that true education is gained from an institution or organization. But by continually enforcing the idea that true
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The Pope’s Famous 4 Predictions About Contraception 0
- October 30, 2015
Most people today accept contraception as a given of modern sexual relations, and just about every Christian church and denomination today believes its use is acceptable in some if not all cases… except the Roman Catholic Church. But the general Christian acceptance of contraception is a fairly recent development. Up until 1930, all major
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This 1960s Greek Village Was Cut Off from the Modern World 0
- Culture
- October 30, 2015
In Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village, anthropologist Juliet du Boulay offers a glimpse of how rural Greek people (and most people in the world) thought and lived before modernity had fully absorbed them. Du Boulay lived in a village known by the pseudonym of “Ambéli” for two years in the late 1960s. Though much of
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They Starved, We Bought Snickers 0
- History
- October 30, 2015
How far we’ve come as a country can be seen in the incredible contrast found at the Donner Memorial State Park, where some of the members of a pioneer group survived the winter of 1846/1847 by cannibalizing their deceased comrades. If you’re not familiar with the Donner Party, you can gain a bit of background
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