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“Us ranchers on the Great Plains are used to adapting. City folk could learn much from the way we use our scarce resources.” One conservationist rancher writes about her hopes for The Guardian.
“The mass-deportation fantasies of some restrictionists notwithstanding, the great majority of ‘illegals’ are here to stay.” The New Yorker draws the borderlines of the real immigration debate.
To coin a phrase by Britain’s pre Second World Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, “It is a faraway country of which we know little”. Chamberlain was of course referring to Czechoslovakia, […]
Between the equally persuasive arguments for and against monogamy exists real life. Michael Thomsen at The Faster Times came and went from monogamy but remains monoamorous.
“After a federal appeals court struck down the FCC’s regulations on indecency, network television will have license to depict more violence, use more profanity and get a whole lot sexier.”
“Plants can transmit information ‘from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems,’ BBC News wrote.” Scientific American examines the implications of this observation.
“The Deepwater Horizon leak has been capped and the president is taking a vacation. Let’s repeal the oil spill and start all over.” Gail Collins delivers some biting satire in her Saturday column.
A game currently under development will allow players to interact emotionally with a virtual human. Is it the end of human connections or the fortification of our innate emotional sense?