Think that throwing money and resources at a problem is helpful? Think again. This book shows, in an uncompromising way, how people with the best of intentions to help others end up doing more harm than good. Specifically, Maren takes his first-hand experience, the anecdotes of others and the words and records of the organizations [...]
August 30, 2008
“The ideologies of the left and right took shape before Darwin, before Mendel, before anyone knew what a gene or a neuron or a hormone was. Every student of political science is taught that political ideologies are based on theories of human nature. Why must they be based on theories that are three hundred years [...]
August 28, 2008
[ad] [NOTE: Republished from The Skeptic.] Misinformation is everywhere, but nowhere more prolific than on the internet. A Google search for “homeopathy” or “UFO” returns a landslide list of mystery-mongering websites. Yes, there are a few skeptical web resources too — but a non-skeptic can be easily misled online. On this episode, Derek & Swoopy [...]
August 15, 2008
[NOTE: This was originally published in 2001.] [ad#posts] Cynthia Eller wields a cunning scythe. Bit by bit, she hacks away at the roots of goddess-oriented philosophy to reveal a landscape fraught with fantasy, imagination and gobbledygook. Gender studies has a new era upon it, one that must, if taken seriously, heed Eller’s accounting of the [...]
August 8, 2008
Stories rule. Not in the sense of them being great, which they often are. Stories rule because they are what pique our interest. My story, your story, our friends’ stories, our family stories. Each is important, and each is in need of validation. And those stories are also utterly unrepresentative of what actually is. Stories [...]
September 2, 2008