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POPSWhy we need high oil prices I know this sounds crazy, but i honestly believe that high oil prices in the short term (1-5 years) is a very good thing if it forces us to find alternatives. I am definitely concerned that if oil prices drop temporarily, the momentum behind alternatives such as wind and solar will die off - leaving us exactly where we are today - way too dependent on oil and way to harmful to our environment.
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POPSNature v nurture? Please don't ask "These results show the sterility of the old nature-nurture debate. Nature works through nurture, and nurture through nature, to shape our personalities, aptitudes, health and behavior. The question should not be which is the dominant influence, but how they fit together. " A very interesting account on the debate with its scientific and social roots. The striking thing is to see in perspective how new discoveries are fast adopted/adjusted in serving other needs; which calls for one to be a critical thinker as to not fall pray to some of the conceptual traps.
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POPSTop Google Earth 'Discoveries' The weird wonders of Google Earth just keep on coming. A few weeks ago, ABCNews.com went to the ends of Google Earth (and Google Maps, too) to explore some of the most interesting images left behind by pranksters, artists, Mother Nature and everyday people.
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POPSFun Fotos There's an old maxim used in landscape photography: f64 and be there. These are some lucky shots.
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POPSAdvertising Gone Wild: Group Sex Implied This ad is on a billboard in NYC. In case you missed what the ad is actually selling, there is, in small print, in opaque typeface, the words Calvin Klein Jeans. In my opinion this ad is in extremely poor taste, mainly for where it is displayed. I personally do not understand how an orgy scene could possibly sell jeans, or any other clothing for that matter, but I realize I am not among their target audience. They obviously think they are so much more sophisticated than someone of my age group. And, I realize that simply by objecting to it identifies me as a member of that group. I can already hear some of you screaming that I am an oppressor of ‘freedom of speech’ as soon as I say this ad is inappropriate to be placed in such a public place. So bring it on. I have never considered myself a prude, I am not for censorship unless it lends itself to the corruption of minors, as this ad clearly does.
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POPSQuotations by Abraham Lincoln ""In religion, Mr. Lincoln was about of the same opinion as Bob Ingersoll, and there is no account of his ever having changed. He went to church a few times with his family while he was President, but so far as I have been able to find out, he remained an unbeliever. Mr. Lincoln in his younger days wrote a book, in which he endeavored to prove the fallacy of the plan of salvation and the divinity of Christ."
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POPSCalvin and Hobbes: On the Categorical Imperative (Kant) Kant's term of morality is a term of reason-based duty as opposed to both arbitrary and heteronomy-based obedience. Moral acting is not sheer obeying any (specified) regulations, precepts, commands or instructions. The moral law as a pure practical law is given by reason a priori , and, "if the will is free" and "if there is a God", it dictates "what ought to be done": I ought never to act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law. Act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a universal law of nature. Act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end in itself, never as means only. So act as if you were through your maxims a law-making member of a kingdom of ends. Reference: Kant's Ethical Theory
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POPSShop or Drop? does it have physical correlates? some technicals citation from the article: "Researchers discovered that when the product first flashed on the screen it activated the nucleus accumbens, a section near the middle of the brain that has been implicated in the brain's reward center, effectively appraising the item. When the price appeared, the scientists noticed activity in the mesial prefrontal cortex, a region of the brain known for higher executive functions. Its activity seemed to vary according to the difference between what someone would pay for an item and its actual cost, as if in error adjustment. Finally, the response of the insula (a lateral section of the brain's cortex known to activate during responses to negative stimuli) depended on the purchasing decision--activity there increased when a participant nixed a purchase." what is interesting here is our human crave to understand more and more...
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POPSBush Latest GOPer to Show Democrats Better for the Economy ...President Bush's administration was marked by a recession that began two months after he took office and another downturn in his final year of office. In the end, the economy during his term added enough jobs to employ only 14 percent of the added number of working-age Americans, the lowest proportion of any postwar administration. Employment grew at a compound annual rate of only 0.3 percent, half the 0.6 percent rate that his father had recorded in what had previously been the worst post-World War II performance.
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POPSA Panic Attack Over Healthcare Tab Interest groups rebel at the idea that new healthcare coverage costs will fall on them.Obama appears open to some health insurance mandates. Private insurance companies push for 'individual mandate'.
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