Sometimes I wonder if life is endlessly difficult or if we just take it harder than we should. Then I read in THEE, which is completely about doing things (hence the “Endeavour” in Taxonomy of Human Elements in Endeavour). I find this strangely discouraging in a way because I’m always doing things and sometimes I don’t want to do anything at all! Or is it that I don’t want to do anything that might

How important is ideology? How important are ideals? Did I just start a blog with questions? I imagine many of you are thinking that these things are profoundly important—and you’re right.  Societies and governance systems are so complex and big and daunting—and they impact our everyday lives. In an attempt to bring order to the perceived chaos, we attempt to systematize our approach. And

I have this funky app I like to use on Twitter where I can track, in real time, hashtags and keywords. Currently on my list is “Society,” “Politics,” “Science,” “Social Science,” “21st Century Enlightenment” and “Philosophy.” How it works is that every time somebody tweets a message with one of these words, it pops up on my feed—courtesy of Hootsuite in case you were curious. I’m starting to question

The family appears to be an institution in crisis. Speculation abounds as to why divorce hovers around 50% in developed countries and something like two-thirds of women in the U.S. experience domestic abuse. Some blame Hollywood, the waning influence of religion, feminism, sexual deviance or a breakdown in “family values.” And that’s just the West. In many developing countries, women aren’t allowed

Technology has been all the rage since the Pliocene epoch. Almost two million years later, it shows no signs of abating. What began as rocks tied to sticks has become space travel, artificial knees and supercomputers. It’s an interesting part of our history and as important to the evolution of mankind as anything biological, intellectual or linguistic. Currently, the speed at which technology develops