by Carl Howard | Aug 25, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, Resources, Food and Environment
If you’re reading this, you have access to the internet and this means you’ve heard (lots) about the ice bucket challenge. I won’t even describe it other than to mention that the amount of money it has raised is over $50M as of August 22. Given that about half of the...
by Carl Howard | Aug 12, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
There are some serious problems with the world’s economic system. This can’t really be denied unless you’re even much further right than say Tony Abbott. Three major intertwined issues are: global poverty the unsustainability of how we make, consume and dispose of...
by Carl Howard | Jul 28, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Medicine, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Science and Skepticism, Spirituality
Near death experiences happen to many people when they’re near clinical death and survive. They’re often profoundly meaningful or life-changing to those who have them. They’re also frequently used to argue that there is an afterlife, a spiritual realm or “something...
by Carl Howard | Jun 16, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, History, Race
Last week, the Sydney Morning Herald published a turd of an article titled How racist are you? by Mark Sawyer. It was so screwed up and misguided that I thought it’s a perfect thing to pick apart. It inadvertently does a great job of highlighting some of Australian...
by Carl Howard | Jun 2, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, History, Race, Society, Travel
This March I was in Israel for a wedding. We flew to Eilat, a holiday destination at the very south of Israel, on the Red Sea. Eilat is right near the border of Egypt and Jordan and you can see both countries right across a small stretch of water: Here’s a photo I...
by Carl Howard | May 28, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Feminism and LGBT, History, Medicine, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Philosophy
You’ve probably seen stuff about the Isla Vista shooting everywhere (I’ll have links to good resources at the bottom of the post). Still, I thought it was worth addressing whether or not Elliot Rodger had a mental illness or not. Here’s a Facebook post by Maddox that...
