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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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10 Quotes from the Most Popular TED Talk EVER 0
- Education
- October 30, 2015
Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 talk entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” remains the most popular TED talk ever. That should tell us something about the public’s desire to transform today’s education system. Here are 10 thought-provoking quotes from it: 1. “If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring
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