almost 1/4 of the world’s prison population is in the US

how many prisoners does the United States have? Only about 1/4 of all the world’s prison population.

are you wearing guilt?

I was drawn to Where Am I Wearing? (2008, Wiley) by the growing counter-globalism movement composed of many Americans that desire to connect producers and consumers. We’ve been treated to revolutionary writing in that vein through now-classic works like Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma. After Friedman and other globalization advocates have toured the advantages of [...]

Jacques Vallee brings a refeshing approach to UFOs

During my recent stint at the Lousiana duck camp and on the plane to Long Beach I had the pleasure of reading the 2008 re-release of Dr. Jacques Vallee’s challenging and essential book on the UFO phenomena.

This book blew my mind. It was the first truly scientific approach to the issue, free of pseudoscience and [...]

Consequences of a machine world

In Charles Eisenstein’s latest post at Reality Sandwich he continues a spot-on commentary describing the disconnected nature of an “ideal” modern existence.