Why does ignorance rule in policy debates? Source: www.nytimes.com Are we as societies even capable of taking good policy advice? Continue reading

I camp, therefore I am. Source: sprudge.com It got so bad that a number of Sultans tried to ban people hanging out in coffee houses, on pain of death, though that might have had something to do with political unrest. These… Continue reading

It’s the biggest Ebola outbreak on record. Here’s the basics. Source: www.vox.com Not absolute death, but that does not mean precautions should be ignored. Continue reading

A comic book property like “Guardians of the Galaxy” may seem ideal for the big screen, but comics have singular pleasures of their own. Source: www.nytimes.com Continue reading

Everyone has a limit where they just stop refusing to put up with shit. Some people — like the megalomaniacal Animaniacs’ character Brain here — will put up with his compatriot Pinky’s gross incompetence for years until he snaps… as… Continue reading

Ahead of the Lone Star Film Society’s retrospective, we talk about the Japanese animator’s lasting legacy with Dr. Marc Hairston, a UTD professor who teaches a Source: artandseek.net Continue reading

Skyrocketing university costs are forcing a growing number of students to choose between paying for rent or tuition. Colleges are failing to meet the needs of marginalized students. Source: www.truth-out.org “homeless college students remain institutionally overlooked and no reliable nationwide… Continue reading

Source: www.noozhawk.com “A synchronicity is, essentially, a meaningful coincidence. Something happens in the world around us that seems to defy probability and “normal” explanations, and due to its correspondence in some manner with our mindset at the time it becomes… Continue reading

Not surprisingly, as we can ascertain by reading the Bible and many other religious and mythological texts of the past, also in Norse beliefs food and fecundity were central elements in the origin of all things (Creation and Food in… Continue reading

Let’s face it, humans are pretty intelligent. Most people would not argue with this. We spend a large majority of our lives trying to become MORE intelligent. Some of us spend nearly three decades of our lives in school, learning… Continue reading