We are all tribal. We don’t have a choice. We are designed that way. Our architects—our genes—design us to be biased toward fellow members of our tribe as opposed to members of other tribes. Genecists are even identifying the genes that do the designing. We might compare ourselves to felines
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Is Democracy Unnatural?
Today is an exceptional time for democracy—the first time in history that most nations in the world may be called democratic (assuming we are generous with our definition). Democracy has, throughout history, been an occasional thing. Governments have in all times and places tended to autocracy. This isn’t surprising. Males
Continue readingScripturient: Why Do We Make Music?
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I’ve read, that things inanimate have mov’d, And, as with living Souls, have been inform’d, By Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound. What then am I? Am…
Continue readingFacing Autism Disorders in New Brunswick: 12 Years Later: Environmental Causes of Autism Still Unexplored
“The Environment as an etiologic factor in autism: a new direction for research” by EA London was published online by ehp, Environmental Health Perspectives, in 2000. Today, 12 years later, it remains the direction not taken as “autism research” continues down the road of genetic obsession and largely ignores environmental
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