Egregious behavior by hollow, narcissistic leaders like Stumpf and Trump is, unfortunately, in the DNA of homo sapiens Four things you might not know The root cause of the behavior of bankers and corporate leaders is directly linked to the scientific findings by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man and reinforced today by Edward O. Wilson in The Social Conquest Read more...
Hillary was the Hedgehog, Donald was Chicken Little The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. – Archilochus (680-645 BCE) Four things you might remember: Isaiah Berlin's famous essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953) is a much used metaphor for profiling two types of thinking and it is based on the Ancient Greek writings Read more...
Three things you might not know: Women are still a staggering 118 years away from closing the gender gap. Women hold only 20% of executive positions When women are outnumbered in a group they speak for almost a third less time than men. Synopsis According to the World Economic Forum's 2015 Global Gender Gap report, women are still a Read more...
(Above centre) Genius Srinivasa Ramanujan at Cambridge (1914) Five things you might not know: Einstein and Feynman had their genius-equal in Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician, who faced racism and bigotry from the white, arrogant Cambridge intelligentsia before his young life was cut short at age 32 (1887-1920). "Americans ... [and] their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly Read more...
Four things you might not know: In 1994, Carl Sagan asked NASA to have Voyager I take a photo of planet earth from 3.7 billion miles away. He called it "The Pale Blue Dot." Voyager I was launched from Earth in 1978 and traveling at one million miles a day for 35 years it finally left our solar system in Read more...
(L-R) Lamar McKay, President BP, Steven Newman, CEO Transocean, Tim Probert, Halliburton Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay Donald Trump and Jesse Ventura What's going on with older white guys in America? Four things you might not know: Whites will be in the minority in the US by 2042 The percent of Whites in the Read more...
Synopsis The numbers are shocking, the losses staggering and the Olympics are a failed and losing proposition perpetrated on the taxpayers of host nations who pick up the multi-billion dollar tab. Russia spent $50 billion, Brazil $20 billion and Greece's modern day Olympics (2004) pushed it into its current black hole of debt. All countries exceeded their budget with an Read more...
Synopsis Are US voters caught in a culture of anxiety disorder and not able to engage their prefrontal cortex when considering which presidential candidate to vote for? Certainly one candidate appeals to the "thinking brain" and the other the "reptilian brain." And if neuroscience and Dr. Clotaire Rapaille are right, and “the reptilian brain always wins," then America is in Read more...
Synopsis O'Reilly's premise is based on a belief in free will, which has been embedded in white, American culture since before 1776. It holds that everyone has the free will to pull up their bootstraps and let their indomitable human spirit overcome all odds. It’s very Horatio Alger-like. According to this creed, O’Reilly believes that all young black boys and Read more...
Pomegranates could be called a "passion fruit," except when it's recalled for Hepatitis A. (1 minute read) Just when you thought it was safe to eat the pomegranate Recently, Zoomer magazine (see earlier blog) highlighted a group of five foods that could feed your sex drive (walnuts, bananas, peppers, avocados and pomegranates). Since then, pomegranate sales are not Read more...
