The Growing Impact of Global Warming

From the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
While natural forces have influenced Earth’s climate (and always will), human-induced changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas levels are playing an increasingly dominant role.
The significant increase in average global temperatures over the past half-century can be attributed to human activities with a certainty of more than 90 percent.
Temperature rises have [...]

Comments on Commentary: The Downward Spiral of American Culture

From the Edge:
A 1950s education in Freud, Marx, and modernism is not a sufficient qualification for a thinking person in the 1990s. Indeed, the traditional American [...]

What is the Source of Oppression, Division, and Racism?

A Talk with Jared Diamond.
Historians don’t get training in the scientific methods; they don’t get training in statistics; they don’t get training in the experimental method or problems of doing experiments on historical subjects; and they’ll often say that history is not a science, history is closer to an art.
Jared comes [...]