Garth Lenz discusses the true cost of mining the Canadian tar sands
In this TED talk, photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos of Canada's Alberta Tar Sands mining project:
In this TED talk, photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos of Canada's Alberta Tar Sands mining project:
Windows on Iran is a blog written by Fatemeh Keshavarz, a woman who resides and teaches in Saint Louis. She has just released another entry, another "window" on Iran.
Today I had the privilege of visiting the orchid show at the Missouri Botanical Garden. This is not the first year that I've visited (and see this post about Darwin and his orchids). I do plan to return next year too for the reasons you can see below. [Click on the permalink for the full gallery of six photos from the 2012 Orchid Show]
I had posted on this Psyblog list before: "Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies." I re-read it this morning. It would seem to be a good article for all people to read before voting. It's important for each of us to know how our brains work before assuming that we are voting with "free will." We often act on the basis of invisible social pressures. It's not a good idea to simply declare that we are "rational" without examining these (and many other) vulnerabilities and biases. Here are the studies summarized in the Psyblog article:
According to George Carlin, Americans don't really have a Bill of Rights, and they are not really given to us by any god. Rather, we have a bill of temporary privileges that can be revoked at any time, and often are.