Month: March 2013

As we approach the week when the Supreme Court is going to hear two important gay-marriage cases (the challenges to California’s Prop 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act), I wanted to check in on the best arguments of the...

Though we are going to miss the red Pradas … 

One of the biggest problems in embracing a more positive view of the world is what is known in psychology as negativity bias. Human beings — indeed all living things — are wired by evolution to be on guard against...

At the Integral Center Monday night Jeff set the tone by inviting us all to watch the video of the wonderful and well known Hans Rosling presentation “200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes” in which Hans demonstrates...

Okay, what’s got your goat this week? The sequestration? Drones? The porn ban in Iceland? Then come to the Integral Center in Boulder — or tune in live — for an integrally-informed discussion on these and any other...

Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always subtance and increase, always sex. Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life. -From...

Okay, I confess: I’m sitting here with my morning coffee wiping tears from my eyes watching Ultimate Male Adele Covers on YouTube. It’s a video collage of young male singers performing their versions of Adele’s song,...

I ran across a fascinating TED video the other night: “Jay Walker on the world’s English mania.” As Walker says in his introduction, “The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable – unless you witness...

I often argue that the increasing ability of human beings to efficiently create material wealth – cars, clothes, calories – as well as our development from a “growth economy” to a “sustainable...

[typography font=”News Cycle” size=”24″ size_format=”px”] This world of dew Is only a world of dew And yet; oh, and yet … – Issa [/typography] See more photos by David Chambon...