I’d never heard of the acronym Yolo ‘you only live once’ until yesterday. Guess I’m not in the young’un age bracket anymore! But it got me thinking. It wasn’t just this text-talk that caught my attention but a number of other...
Explain human behavior in the news this week. John C. Nienstedt, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sepp Blatter. I’m trying to think of some good examples as well… maybe among some victims of the above? How can you explain human behavior behind attending a Bible...
Incivility, we don’t talk about it much, it doesn’t get much coverage but it is there, munching away hungrily at the fringes of our lives. A couple of days ago in Paris we had a big football (soccer) game as part of the Champion’s League between...
Do you have free will to make your own decisions? Is your life your own to do with it whatever you want? Can you choose to go one way or the other in your career? Marriage? Vacation? Do you enjoy the freedom of choice? The other side of free will: Is your destiny...
To govern conjures up many images in your mind. In fact, I have a hunch that those images could very well be negative and you’re wondering if you should continue reading this blog post. Well, you should. Yesterday I listened to a Hangout on Air with Carrie Roldan and...
Humankind and discrimination. Today is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp and at the same time, numerous other death camps of WWII to exterminate various peoples considered ‘sub-cultures’ of the world. I just spent the...