Philosophy & Ethics

ADA gets Hershey's as a sponsor- are we missing the revenue trend?

Hershey Teams Up With ADA- the American Dietetic Association- says the press release.   The Hershey Center for Health&Nutrition® sponsoring an advocacy group devoted to dietary health workers?  Sure, why not?  Hershey's says they want to make us a ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 30 2010 - 2:33pm

Charity, What Does It Mean?- Sadaqa, Matlab Kya He?

Charity, What Does It Mean?- Sadaqa, Matlab Kya He? An essay on the meaning of the term 'charity', with scientific, philosophical and historical discussion. "There is no person who does not have the obligation of doing charity every day tha ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Aug 18 2010 - 3:32pm

The Wolf who cried "Boy!"

In my take on the classic fable of the Boy who Cried “Wolf” a young boy thinks he sees a menacing wolf and cries out to the townspeople, “Wolf!” The townspeople come to examine the danger and find no wolf, they presume he is mistaken. Soon thereafter the b ...

Blog Post - Brian Taylor - Aug 19 2010 - 10:23am

Hilarious Putnam, please shut up

Bruno Latour (*1947) is a social constructionist or constructivist. If you know the difference, it is a sign indicating that you have wasted time studying useless stuff. Around 2004, he finally got partially enlightened and started to question his previous ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 15 2011 - 10:00am

Ideas, ideals and idols

There can be no ideal person but there can be ideal ideas. Only one thing that a writer needs is ideas. They may or may not be ideal. Ideas get a Nobel Prize if written in the proper manner.  Ideals can be persons, nations, situations, affairs, or situatio ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 24 2010 - 3:55pm

What Is Genocide And Why Does Stalin Get A Free Pass?

Hitler gets a bad rap universally for his genocide but a startling subset of progressives in America view Joseph Stalin favorably despite his killing more people.   Time magazine put Stalin on its cover 11 times.  Then Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur were ess ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2010 - 2:34pm

Will Value Based Education bring down crime rates across the world?

World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The mental aspect of health is very much neglected in society. There is a decline in the basic ...

Blog Post - Anirudha Lakshmin... - Sep 28 2010 - 12:38pm

Einstein and Buddha- what do they have in common?

Physics, unlike biology, doesn't differentiate between a Human Being and a Rock.    After all, both are made up of atoms. Eastern Mystics of olden days also believed in the same as evident from their scriptures. ...

Blog Post - Anirudha Lakshmin... - Oct 1 2010 - 11:24am

Post-Docs As Saboteurs

We've had any number of discussions about the changing face of academic research given the fact that we keep being told America doesn't do enough science education but there aren't enough jobs in research to go around. With success in an eve ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 1 2010 - 3:58pm

The Strange Public Disconnect Between IVF And Embryonic Stem Cells

In the debate over human embryonic stem cell research, protesters have ethical issues with experimenting on human embryos, while proponents point to the research’s huge potential to save lives. How come no one questions why we create extra cells to use or ...

Article - Jenny Morber - Oct 6 2010 - 4:48pm