Aldous Huxley proposed that the dystopia of the future would be, to a great extent, dependent on a drug to numb the desires and energies of the society. The Drug he chose to name was Soma.
Day: February 10, 2014
Common Core in the People's Republic of NY
Another howl of protest, this time from NY teachers about excess testing.
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Taubes be da Man
I have always admired the work of the great Taubes, since he is fearless even when he hopes to get published by the NYT and other lefty pubs.
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Revisiting the Cowardice and Fear that Spawns the Precautionary Principle
Frank Furedi writes and speaks on the vicious problem of the precautionary principle.
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Carbon Tax Dressed as a Social Cost–Singer Explains
Fred Singer finds another .
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/02/the_stealth_carbon_tax.html
Societal Structures and Mixed Up people
Dan Flynn, a regular essayist at AmSpec, offers some troubling observations about people and relationships in the wake of the heroin OD of the actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
It is easy to talk about loving your neighbor as an abstraction, or believing the words of the John Lennon song
Imagine.
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Shell does a Deal with the Enemy
Shell adheres to the compromiser’s theory that can be characterized
as feeding beefsteak to the Leopard, hoping it will become a vegetarian.
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2327706/natural-environment-research-council-inks-controversial-research-partnership-with-shell
3rd World Diseases
I pay a little attention to 3rd world diseases, that are often mistakenly just called tropical diseases. I even see some of those disease occasionally or get public health reports of their presence in the US.
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