We arrive in this world knowing surprisingly little. Many creatures are born with a basic set of knowledge that helps them survive, but that’s not true for people. Humans lack instincts for even the most basic needs and are profoundly helpless for a prolonged period of time after birth. We have to learn what to […]
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Tag Archives: World War II
The Things We Imagine
July 8, 2012 
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Two chimpanzees mauled an American graduate student in South Africa last month. He was leading a tour of a jungle refuge filled with our closest animal relatives. Tragically, he stepped inside a restricted zone, violated chimpanzee territory, and they defended themselves. The young man is missing fingers and toes, one testicle, hunks of arm flesh, […]
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April 29, 2012 0 Comments
In 2012, the United States will spend more than $1 trillion on the defense department and war. We spend more on the military than we do anything else in the federal budget. The 2012 allocation for education is $77.4 billion, or approximately 7% of what we splurge on defending ourselves. Cancelling the space shuttle saved […]
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