Does your choice of reading material reaffirm what you already believe? Do we "submit" to the text or do we "examine" it? Are we "moved" by the author, convinced of the truth s/he peddles? When you read, do you do it "critically" or "uncritically?"
If obesity is a disease then Americans have an epidemic. Big Pharma cashes in and invents the thin pill.
Angelina Jolie has set a trend. Madonna gets herself an African baby too.
Uncle Sam recruits Latinos to die in Iraq. The Department of Defense's Joint Advertising and Marketing Research and Studies program (JAMRS) decides Hispanics use their right brain, and so tend to be emotional and non-logical. How can one be "emotionally compelled" to serve in the military?
South Korean Ban Ki-moon is the United Nation's new Secretary General. Will he do a better job than Kofi Annan?
Symptoms of the widening gap between the rich and poor in Brazil- the rich opting to use their helicopters for safety and organized crime lording it over government.
Andrew Potter suggests Pope Benedict XVI, in that infamous speech, likens Christians to atheists. "Because atheists and Christians have reconciled themselves to the primacy of reason, while Muslims cling to a conception of God as completely outside (and unanswerable to) human understanding."
Despite what some may think, humans are still animals. So why are we still threatened to discover we share certain traits with other "inferior" species.
Good news for those always on the go, scientists say skipping breakfast isn't necessarily bad for your health.
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