City of Quartz – LA After pulling together a group of admired friends and family reading a specific book – City of Quartz, by Mike Davis – and watching, listening to some current events, my response to the book has changed. At first, I expressed my angst while reading that I had hard time accepting…
In a recently published academic paper that I cannot now find nor fully remember, the author focused on the metaphor change from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”. They asserted that that simple metaphor change was introduced initially as a compromise to “deniers”; that metaphor change, either intentionally or not, reduced angst, urgency and sadly, human…
Heroes are double-edged swords. There is something in our cultural (biological?) makeup that pushes us to identify with heroes – especially in western cultures. The word “hero” has an interesting etymology: The word hero comes from the Greek ἥρως (hērōs), “hero” (literally “protector” or “defender”), particularly one such as Heracles with divine ancestry or later given divine honors. Before the decipherment of Linear B the original…
If you have not read or heard of Jeremy Lent, not to be concerned. He does not have a Wikipedia entry, but he self-publishes much. Who is Jeremy Lent? Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes…
An article in Exploresweb referenced a DNA study of two Picts’ and concluded that contrary to popular opinions, the Picts were most likely Iron Age residents in northern England, not immigrants from continental Europe. Picts history (Wikipedia) is fascinating as is most prehistorical research that relies on either physical artifacts, oral history or much later…
