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Can You Predict Happiness? By Tiffany Sharples… If you think you can predict what you will like, think again. When people try to estimate how much they will enjoy a future experience, they are dependably wrong, according to research by Harvard psychologists — and the reason is something they call “attentional collapse.” When we imagine [...]
02/21/2012Read More
By James Howard Kunstler The misalignment of politics and reality threatens to scuttle both major parties, but it’s especially gratifying to see the Republicans sail off the edge of their own flat earth on the winds of religious idiocy. For forty years it has not been enough for them to just be a conservative [...]
02/21/2012Read More
In the midst of the controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline last fall, two of us — Neil Swart, a PhD student in my lab, and I — undertook to measure the likely impact of oil sands development upon world climate. On September 28, we submitted the results of our analysis for publication and [...]
02/20/2012Read More
For starters, the energy and environmental impacts of tar sands production are not limited to within the borders of Canada. But the trouble doesn’t end there. Almost exactly nine years ago, opposition to the US invasion of Iraq was reaching a fever pitch. On February 15, 2003 millions of people around the world rallied to [...]
02/20/2012Read More
A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is ‘I wish I hadn’t worked so hard’. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life? There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled [...]
02/19/2012Read More
Business can only hope to rescue the world from the escalating economic crisis if it consciously sets out to “do good” instead of merely concentrating on the bottom line. And companies that do so will actually become more profitable. Utopian? Idealistic? Impractical? The sort of thing you’d expect to hear from the Archbishop of [...]
02/18/2012Read More
In a week of winding our way to a refugee camp near the Syrian border, we spoke to dozens of people who had fled the violence, but remarkably few of them were women. Finally, when we reached al-Ramtha transitional camp on the fourth day, I was told that one of the five residential buildings [...]
02/18/2012Read More
Financial ruin and loss of organic agriculture will be part of the future Australia if genetically modified crop trials continue, according to Canadian farmer Peter Eggers. Mr Eggers is facing similar consequences on his Alberta property after first trialling GM canola in the 1990s. Aside from providing no financial gain, he said the initial [...]
02/15/2012Read More
FITTINGLY for a business that has peddled discretion for 271 years, the Zurich office of Wegelin is easy to miss. But according to an indictment unsealed in New York on February 2nd, Switzerland’s oldest bank brazenly helped its clients dodge American taxes on $1.2 billion in offshore accounts and poached American clients from UBS, [...]
02/15/2012Read More
Monsanto was created in 1901. The company's first product was the artificial sweetener saccharin. In the 1920s Monsanto expanded into basic industrial chemicals. During the Second World War Monsanto contributed to research on uranium for the Manhattan Project, which lead to the atomic bomb. Monsanto continued to operate a nuclear facility for the U.S. [...]
02/14/2012Read More
www.loversandotherstrangersdonjackson.com I spoke at a special Valentine’s event this past Saturday in Oshawa, Ontario. After the presentation, someone asked how I spent Valentine’s Day with my wife. I hesitated for a moment or two not really knowing how to answer. You see, for the better part of 20 years, my wife and I have [...]
