Worth A Look: Healing the Heart of Democracy

Recommended! …the most important manifesto in generations for breaking through the divisiveness that has paralyzed our democracy. — Bill Shore, founder of Share Our Strength, author of The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men

Review: Reflections on Higher Education

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg 5.0 out of 5 stars Relevant Today–Perhaps Still Not Appreciated Today, August 10, 2011 There is nothing in this book that I could disagree with, which instantly marks it as iconoclastic rather than traditional or elitist. This long-serving president spent close to three decades managing two universities, the longest The George Washington …

Jason Silva: Creativity, Marijuana, & Butterfly Effect

On Creativity, Marijuana and “a Butterfly Effect in Thought” Jason Silva Reality Sandwich “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.” […] “…by some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.” — Pearl Buck, Winner of a Nobel …

DefDog: Doing the Wrong Things–Agriculture, Defense

Industrialized agriculture, and industrialized corruption in defense.  Nobody is serious about creating safe, affordable, sustainable solutions for anything, from agriculture to defense. Antibiotic resistance is a common feature of Cargill Salmonella outbreaks Drew Falkenstein Food Poison Journal, 3 August 2011 Competition for Military Contracts Doesn’t Lower Costs Joshua Foust The Atlantic, 3 August 2011 Phi …