Life doesn’t always offer us ways of making major changes overnight, either to ourselves or our environments, but it frequently offers us chances to take tiny steps that together can add up to major changes for both ourselves and those around us. 1. Don’t
People, myself included, frequently wonder why police are often so tollerant of the sometimes unjust actions of their fellow police, and why so often internal investigations turn up “no wrongdoing.” Retired police Captain Ray Lewis took up the question, and wrote the following response:
There is a degree of embedded sexism in the expectations we have, and stories we tell, within our culture. I am not talking about words like “humanity” having man in it, but instead about the idea that a stoic woman would be anything but
If you’re a regular person, you probably think of bees as those fluffy flying insects that also make honey. Well, that isn’t wrong, but it also only describes the honey-bee. Ironically, although this bee is featured in the thumbnail of pretty much every article
Contrary to what you might have heard, the most commonly grown crop in the United States is not genetically modified or meant for any industrial or nutritional uses. The most commonly grown crop in the U.S. is grass, not the smokeable kind, and it is
Each year, humans use more of the planet’s natural resources than it is able to regenerate. According to Robert Costanza et al in 2014, we are losing the estimated net value of approximately $20 trillion a year. The day of the year when we
The great basketball player Lebron James has just committed a magnanimous offer of a free four year college education to at least 1,100 poor minority children. At an average cost of approximately $40,000 (Akron University) per student, this amounts to at least $41,000,000 million
Agricultural gag laws, also known as ag-gag, are designed to prevent, among other things, the publishing of video taken within slaughterhauses and factory farms. The laws work primarily to silence and intimidate whistleblowers, and have spread out over the United States into 14 states
Race is an attempt to define groups of people based on their appearance and heritage. Clean “races” don’t exist in a scientific context and genetic variance barely exists, and we’re genetically far healthier because of this. Indeed, the idea that a human is somehow
The militarization of the U.S. police forces, subsidized by cheap military hand-me-downs and further enabled by the preferential hiring of ex-soldiers, is one of several drivers that have led many in the population to lose trust in the police as an institution designed to
