According to data collected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an estimated 43.5 million adults in just the United States of America were suffering from a mental illness in 2014. Fewer, but still about 1 out of every 100, are
The leaders of 150 nations, along with thousands of representatives of nearly 200 countries are currently meeting in Paris to try to come up with a plan to avoid the possible catastrophes of climate change. Scientists have known for decades that the problem of
It’s no secret that Google collects user data, and although this impacts the majority of us: most of us aren’t aware of exactly how much data is being gathered. After all, how many of us are aware that our voice commands via Android or
“And so it begins … ISIS flag among refugees in Germany fighting the police,” blared the headline on the Conservative Post; “with this new leaked picture, everything seems confirmed”. The image in question purported to show a group of Syrian refugees holding ISIS flags
The high profile deaths of men, many of whom were black, at the hands law enforcement in the last year—including Freddie Gray, Michael Brown and Eric Garner—have thrust the issue of police killings into the international spotlight. Videos of homeless men being shot or assaulted
Since the “financial repression,” the most powerful people have only gotten more powerful. A 2013 Oxfam report found that 80 people had as much wealth as 1/2 of humanity, and a few months later Forbes said the number had dropped to 67. Many of
It isn’t just my imagination, and it isn’t just in any one nation. Nearsightedness impacts around every second person in the US and Europe, up from half that 50 years ago. If you think that’s shocking, it is more pronounced in Asia, for instance in
Marcus Tullius Cicero is famous for saying essentially: “More laws equals less justice.” The fact is that irrational legislators are a sign of a failing society, be these unsound laws on Saudi or American soil. The upside to irrational laws is that they can
Life changes, sometimes a lot and sometimes very fast. It feels like change keeps happening ever faster in today’s technical civilization. Some of these changes can be characterized as good, but others… 1. How many different devices we need 2. The world of
