"Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are." - St. Augustine of Hippo

In the modern world, there's no escaping advertising. Something like half the email in the world is spam. Webpages have pop over, under, around, and through ads. TV shows are at least a quarter ads. There's ads on buses, taxis, signs, buildings, supermarket floors, even over the urinals in men's rooms, or inside toilet stalls. You can't even ( Read more... )

Has Science Found a Way to End All Wars? an article from Discover a few months back. The ingredients people figure will end war are... well, pretty much what you'd expect. Food, dignity, land, etc... Take away the most common reasons people fight, and guess what, most people won't. And if most people aren't fighting, then you don't have war, ( Read more... )