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Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: Sir Francis Galton introduced the term “eugenics,” meaning well-born, in 1883. His emphasis was on encouraging healthy and capable people, of above-average intelligence, to bear more children, with the idea of building an “improved” human race. The eugenics ideologies that are typically associated with … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: What happens when you combine an embarrassment of riches with managerial incompetence? You get opportunity squandered and systemic failures together with prevarications and blame-shifting. If only the Electric Reliability Council of Texas could somehow convert the prevarications and blame-shifting of state officials into useful … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: While binge watching a TV series called Numbers, I was enjoying the sibling rivalry of the two brothers that are the main characters. One is a mathematics professor and the other is a kind of swashbuckling FBI agent. As the swashbuckler enters the professor’s … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: On February 13th 2021, a pathetic minority of United States Senators landed decisively somewhere between wishy and washy on the question of autocracy versus democracy. As they were feigning reverence for the Constitution of the United States, they inadvertently highlighted the most fundamental problem facing … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: In her 2013 book, Farmacology, Daphne Miller, MD makes a compelling case that gut flora is linked to soil tilth. In one chapter she describes her encounter with a rodeo ridin’ Missouri cattle rancher and his conversion from all things antithetical to tree hugging. … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: I remember watching cartoons during my early childhood. One character in particular made a lasting impression on me due to the confused look he had on his face as an angel was whispering in one ear and the devil was whispering in the other. … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Intentional Consumerism is, first and foremost, about expressing consumer preferences that are informed by the behaviors of those with whom we do business. It is how we vote every day with every dollar we spend. It is how we move towards a promising future, with each … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: When I first read about KickStart International’s Money Maker Hip Pump. The dance floor chant “Shake your money maker” immediately came to my adolescent mind. Although, once I got beyond the amusing imagery, I soon realized just how important a human powered pump would … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: Our mind endowing, Spirit bestowing and personality bequeathing God is always aware of our limitations as well as our potential. We are judged fairly in light of our origin, nature and purpose. And, because mercy is inherent in Divine justice, we can always be … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Andrew Jackson, with his forced march of the Cherokee along the Trail of Tears is no darling of humanitarians. He did, however, get one thing right. Upon closing the Second Bank of the United States, he correctly accused the bankers of having privatized gains while socializing … Read more