To see and understand the law. Aborigines abide by a cosmological understanding of the universe that is deeply tied to legends of ancestral beings of the Dreaming. Their lives center on understanding and respecting these forces, persisting through the tradition of passing down knowledge from generation to generation through various forms of art and storytelling […]
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I just read Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. It’s one of those books worth exploring for the sake of cultural literacy. I wanted to understand its ongoing popularity, especially since some of my good friends value its message. Now I can at least join the conversation and gain stronger insight into what
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The cities most likely to flourish in our increasingly competitive 21st-century world will apply a few basic planning strategies. Following are ten reasons why thriving cities are leaving their competitors in the dust. Some cities earn more praise than others because of convenience. In a comfortable urban environment, most basic needs can be found in
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Only a handful of species address each other individually. For instance, there’s some evidence that bottlenose dolphins use learned vocal behavior to call each other by name. They become acquainted with signature whistle sounds from birth and associate these sounds with identity. Linking particular sounds to identity is an ability inherent to human language. Of
Let’s just admit it. For some people, political obsession is really an extension of character flaws cloaked in a mantle of patriotic concern. If you live to be 82 years old, you have around 30,000 days on Earth. After subtracting the time for obligations like sleeping, eating, working, paying bills, and so on, you only
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I was maybe six. I was playing outside, in the backyard, with my little brother. Dad was at work and Mom was . . . well, wherever she was. Look, she wasn’t a drunk or anything. She was just terribly sad. When I was a teenager, Dad took her to the doctor and she started