Americans like to fix things. We like to improve and we are convinced the future will be better, a subset of people who want to retreat into the world of the past aside(1), but nothing has changed little despite a century of being criticized like university lectures.We can fix K-12 education. The overwhelmingly bipartisan No Child Left Behind did just that, it stopped the educational...
read moreJohn Friend, the founder of Anusara, one of the world’s fastest-growing yoga styles, is being criticized by his yoga followers for being a bit of a rascal. He has sex with students. A lot.
read moreJohn Friend, the founder of Anusara, one of the world’s fastest-growing styles, is being criticized by his yoga followers for being a bit of a rascal. He has sex with students. A lot.
read moreIf you are anything like me, and you had a chance to sit around with Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, you wouldn't ask fanboy questions like 'will we ever understand the soul?' or 'how much should I make fun of evolutionary psychology surveys about sex?' you would instead lean in conspiratorially and ask, 'what's the best way to get out of a speeding ticket?' read...
read moreIf if you're in media and tired old swine flu sounds too hammy to generate page views and bird flu does not make your audience cry fowl any more, there is good disease news - scientists may have found flu in bats. If bats can get a virus, why can't humans, in an anthropogenic, anthropocentric world? Well, it isn't necessarily the flu in bats but it is genetic fragments of a flu virus....
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