Maybe all of us are engaged in a lifelong fight to find our better natures. But some of us, perhaps the luckiest ones, find a reliable shortcut. For Willie Nelson, that shortcut has turned out to be pot. It works for him, and he needed it.
Month: February 2016
Edward Snowden: “The individual is more powerful today than they ever have been in the past.” – Reason.com
We don’t want Russia or China or North Korea or Iran or France or Germany or Brazil or any other country in the world to hold us up as an example for why we should be narrowing the boundaries of liberty around the world instead of expanding them
Edward Snowden: “The individual is more powerful today than they ever have been in the past.” – Reason.com
They’re excusing themselves from accountability to us at the same time they’re trying to exert greater power over us.
As Earth scientists, we are deeply troubled by the well-documented complicity of ExxonMobil in climate denial and misinformation. For example, recent investigative journalism has shed light on the fact that Exxon, informed by their in-house scientists, has known about the devastating global warming effects of fossil fuel burning since the late 1970s, but spent the next decades funding misinformation campaigns to confuse the public, slander scientists, and sabotage science – the very science conducted by thousands of AGU members.
http://thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/scientists-to-agu-drop-exxon-sponsorship/
Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical
Neurotypical syndrome is a neurobiological disorder characterized by preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity.
Source: Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical
Steve Silberman on Autism — a Five Books Interview
disability is a product of the way society is organised, rather than by limitations imposed by a person’s condition.
LSD research making a comeback says U of S historian – Saskatoon – CBC News
“Stereotypically, the baby boom generation ruined LSD, [but] they may reclaim it on their deathbed as our health care system moves more and more to catering to geriatric care and palliative care,” she said.
Source: LSD research making a comeback says U of S historian – Saskatoon – CBC News
