Peter Singer is one of the best known moral philosophers alive today. He is probably best known for his book Animal Liberation where he introduced the term speciesism to describe our exploitation of animals and subsequently turned a lot of people vegetarian. More recently he published The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End [...]
When I’m writing I repeatedly edit words and rework tracks/ I’ll admit I’m like the Raptors – I got weak first drafts/ So when I’m dropping a new flow/ It’s prolly not all that solid at first post yo might call it Araujo/ I already liked Shad before I heard this song, but a reference [...]
A few years ago, a friend’s intelligent and well-read teenage son saw Hotel Rwanda and said, “I didn’t know they had houses in Africa. I thought they all lived in shacks.” I suspect that was a common reaction. Wars, famines and floods may make for good entertainment, but the media’s relentless portrayal of the developing [...]
How do Americans spend their leisure time? The answer might surprise you. The most common voluntary activity is not eating, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs. It is not socializing with friends, participating in sports, or relaxing with the family. While people sometimes describe sex as their most pleasurable act, time-management studies find that the average [...]
Two things: I don’t really have time to write more about this but here are a couple links about an interesting new study out of the University of Bristol saying that drinking caffeine might not actually make you more alert, it might just temporarily cure your caffeine withdrawal: Drinking coffee doesn’t make you more alert [...]
Just a few days ago, I mentioned what I thought was a worst-case scenario of a hurricane hitting the oil spill. And then…XKCD stole my idea. Well, probably not. Someone was bound to come up with this…
From the reports I’ve been getting from all around Canada, our education system is messed up, to the point where it’s even trite to say it. Kids are being over-protected by parents to the point where teachers can’t do their jobs because parents won’t let teachers discipline their kids. Students are falling through the cracks [...]
Waking up this morning and seeing the steady rain, I was grateful that I only had a 20 minute bike ride to work and I didn’t have to plant trees in it all day. But I still miss the strange and infinitely creative questions people would come back to camp with after a day of [...]
