On Thursday my 8-year-old cousin Gabriel Fennemore was recognized by the State of Delaware's Governor Jack Markell for his environmentalism accomplishments.

Gabriel, who is home-schooled, spent the last two years photographing animals and plants.  With his father Bart's help setting up the template and teaching him how to upload, Gabriel produced an ( Read more... )

Civilization is not a by-product of happenstance, but a deliberate construct achieved by the efforts of determined minds.

People have live together in small, stationary village-sized groups or nomadic bands for millennia before recorded history began about 5000 years ago.  There's some evolutionary psychology theories supported by cognitive ( Read more... )