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Children and Nature: A Growing Disconnect

This past weekend was a scorcher. It nearly broke some records. Read more »

Local Produce: Reason, Season, Miracle

It is almost November. For those of us who shop at farmer’s markets, the change from a prodigious summer to a solemn autumn is becoming clear.

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Two Themes on Science Vs Art

If religion vs science is one eternal debate, science vs art is another. Read more »

Nurturing Good Samaritans

Most of us are familiar with the story of the good samaritan, the man who stopped to help an injured enemy. Most don’t know of a relatively new experiment that demonstrated one facet of what enables us to be good samaritans.
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Understanding Science

My mind casts a rather wide net, piqued by interest in history and politics to cognitive science, psychology and evolution to parenting and consumer culture to music, literature  and poetry to personal anecdotes. A casual glance at this blog should reveal this fact. I snorkel the world in search of interesting nuggets of observations and ideas that illuminate the condition of humanity, the universe we live in.
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