I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom read more

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as read more

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, read more

We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, and when they get to the statehouse, they don't seem to talk to one another.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my read more

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers also in the group, let's read more

There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers also in the group, let's be quite honest about that, ... I've tried to get them to understand that in our interconnected world, we need to look at issues in much broader terms rather than narrow national interests.

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different read more

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?

I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the read more

I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!

These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases.

These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases.

Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going read more

Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going over these overheads over the highways, and what can we do?