Home - An 1871 review of Charles Darwin's Descent of Man.
Extinctions in recent history - In 2006, a press release from the World Conservation Union declared the West African black rhino extinct.
Burning oil night and day - Our consumer lifestyle is making the problems of environmental degradation and resource depletion more severe.
If electric power had preceded steam - A 2005 article in New Scientist magazine asked "What if electric generators and motors had arrived on the scene before the industrial revolution began?"
Pro-War Personality Disorder - The Iraq war is a symptom. Have you ever wondered why political views in America are more deeply divided than anywhere else in the free world?
UN Child Well-being report, 2007 - The USA and UK are bottom of the OECD league for child well-being.
Jean Liedloff, the Yekuana, and Golf - After living with a tribe of Amazonian Indians in the 1960s Jean Liedloff wrote a book contrasting their psychological well-being to that of Western societies.