Our society is currently thrashing its way through many complicated subjects. In the end though, a lot of what these discussions boil down to is local versus central control. Organization from the bottom

Mad Cow Disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is thought to be a problem with protein folding, caused by an original mis-folded protein called a "prion." (This is still theoretical, by the

Richq11 posted a good article about the dolphin personality type worth reading: It reminded me of the "Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, omega" school of thought about personality types. I spent a little

Sisyphus in Greek mythology was a king who believed that his craftiness surpassed that of the gods. As punishment in the afterlife by the gods, he was given the task of rolling a heavy boulder up a hill,

So Kyriacos had a good post ( how vegetarianism isn't a logically consistent viewpoint. Much of the discussion boiled down to vegans and vegetarians talking about how horrible the meat industry is, with

The older I get, the more I see that humanity tends to act in predictable ways, and the more I see that how a system is set up, the rules by which it functions, are what determines the outcomes for a society.

I recently watched "The Martian", Ridley Scott's space flick about a Mars exploration team that accidentally abandons an astronaut on the surface of Mars. Early in the movie, the mission commander