Power Steer by Michael Pollan March 2002 New York Times. [archive text]. This is the article that got me buying grass fed beef from local farmers. A NYT reporter buys a calf and follows it from birth to slaughter in...
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The Journey Of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells This book is amazing. It's a laypersons overview of the current technology and understanding of DNA research into the origins of man. We have discovered a lot very recently about...
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Rapid Climate Change, by American Institute of Physics Aug 2003 [archive text] Here is a super single-paper introduction to the topic of Rapid Climate Change - probably the best overview I've read. Woods Hole also has some excellent papers for...
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Is there really a Fatherhood Crisis?, by Stephen Baskerville Spring 2004 [archive pdf] Abstract: Virtually every major social pathology has been linked to fatherless children: violent crime, drug and alcohol abuse, truancy, unwed pregnancy, suicide, ...
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The Empty Craddle by Phillip Longman May 2004 [archive pdf] You may or may not agree with his conclusions but the facts presented here are stark and real. The world population is on the decline. This goes against everyday experience...
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The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington Summer 1993 [archive text] This is a pretty famous work about the state of the world post cold war. It came out a few years after the classic End Of History 1989...
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An Oil Enigma Alen Brensen, New York Times, June 11, 2004 [archive text] Ok there's a lot of scary stuff on the net about 'peak oil' and the collapse of civilization and for the most part it's been easy to...
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The Mentality Of Homo Interneticus: Some Ongian Postulates by Michael H. Goldhaber, April 29th 2004 [archive text] Curious and insightful read on how the mind is shaped by the mediums we use. Those who read books primarily will think diffrently...
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Blunt talk by General Zinni on Iraq, interview with General Anthony Zinni, May 14th 2004 [archive text] This is the article that won me over that the war in Iraq is a bad idea. Hearing it from a cigar chomping...
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The oil we eat - Essay by Richard Manning, Feb 2004 [archive text] "The day is not far off," Kennan concluded, "when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts." This is an interesting article about agriculture...
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Bugs, Sweat and Fear by Felicity Lawrence, May 3rd 2004 [archive text] This is another article about how bad industrialized agriculture is except instead of focusing on America it looks at Euope and amazingly they can be just as bad...
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