August, 2012 // Posts published in August, 2012
The Power of Being an Introvert in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
“Mom, you’re reading that, too!?” My 23-year-old-son, home for a visit, was astonished to see that each of us had picked up the same book: Susan Cain’sQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That ...
Breaking Bloody News of Lexington and Concord
We live in a time of constant debate and discussion about political and military media coverage. Whether it is a presidential election or rebellion in the Middle East, the role of 21st-century media is constantly scrutinized. So, now is perhaps the best time to study media coverage of the American Revolution and the birth of ...
An Open Letter to Consumer Reports: 10 Misinformation Hazards in Your “10 Surprising Dangers of Vitamins and Supplements” Article
By James J. Gormley It is personally disappointing for me that Consumer Reports, the flagship of the respected marketplace-empowerment organization, Consumers Union, has once again seen fit to arm the American consumer with detrimental misinformation regarding safe, ...
Welcome to the Third World, Part 8: A PhD Is Now a “Path to Poverty”
Newly-minted anthropology PhD Sarah Kendzior has written a chilling piece for Aljazeera on what things are really like in academia these days: “Welcome to the Third World” columns published here, is debt. We’ve kept interest rates too low for too long, which encouraged too many people to borrow too much and expand too aggressively, and ...
The Importance of Fever
Childhood fevers can be frightening, mostly because they are misunderstood. A fever is an increase in body temperature above the “normal range.” But the definition of “normal” can vary from person to person. Body temperature also ...
Is Your Tatoo Making You Sick?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an investigation after new research turned up troubling findings about toxic chemicals in tattoo ink. Recently published studies have found that the inks can contain a host of ...
Grover Norquist: Budget Hawks or Military Hawks?
Grover Norquist continues to gently unwraps the fiscal hypocrisy of the hawks in this interview with the Cato Institute. More on cutting the military budget here.
Grover Norquist: Budget Hawks or Military Hawks?
Grover Norquist continues to gently unwraps the fiscal hypocrisy of the hawks in this interview with the Cato Institute. More on cutting the military budget here.
From Obama’s Syria ‘Red Line’ to the Covert Ops We Don’t Know About
President Obama this week defined his “red line” for the Syria conflict, warning that if the Syrian government’s chemical and biological weapons are moved around or utilized, this would “change” his “calculus,” which has so far been to abstain from any direct military intervention inside Syria. But the administration’s current interventions are already unwarranted…at least those we know about. ...
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