Recent discoveries have uncovered three more-recent Families of Homo who lived at the same time - Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal, and Denisovan - thereby making our view of ourselves more complex. The mystery that these Families present to us is how they interacted with each other. Did They ignore each other, make war with each other, or intermarry? ( Read more... )

When I was a teenager, I belonged to a United Methodist Church youth group. Membership in this group was my family’s idea, and I had no choice in the matter. Moreover I had no friends in this group, except for one girl who was friendly towards me ( Read more... )

In pondering “art for art’s sake”, I need to narrate my first encounter with Abstract Art. At the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, I decided to view paintings by Willem de Kooning (Dutch-American, 1904-1997), a prominent Abstract Expressionist. These paintings featured black brush strokes on a white canvas. My first reaction was that " ( Read more... )

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