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...
by Carl Howard | May 24, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness
When I was in Cambodia, I saw lots of beggars. For obvious reasons, I didn’t want to give money to people begging. However, simply saying no and leaving it at that didn’t seem right either. The idea I came up with was to record the number of encounters with beggars....
by Carl Howard | May 20, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Interesting Stuff, Race, Resources, Food and Environment
The image has been spreading for a few weeks and has found its way to Reddit, Imgur and Viralnova. The background is that the farmer’s wife died and he sold his possessions and worked really hard to put his son through university. And now he has, with the son wearing...
by Carl Howard | May 6, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Spirituality
It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of the Dalai Lama. For starters, he is the leader of a theocracy where leaders have brutally oppressed the population. This reality, and that of him being a leader of a religion that’s just like any other sometimes peeks...
by Carl Howard | Apr 29, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Evolution and Biology, Feminism and LGBT, Science and Skepticism
There have been some stories over the last few years of parents who are raising a “genderless” child. Of course, this always gets a severe case of moral panic and I have found even people who are usually a bit less prone to such stuff lose their shit a little. Two of...
