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...Reading the elegiac prose of one such as Victorian art critic John Ruskin, conversely, does far more to inspire genuine environmentalism than do blind imperatives to recycle. In his memoirs, Ruskin writes of the pristine Alps, meadows, and lilac trees of his childhood, noting that these were eventually paved through by railroads and left “filthy with cigar ashes” by travelers who “knocked the paling about, roared at the cows, and tore down what branches of blossom they could reach.” Nature writing in cases like this is not mere romanticism...
...factored in. Racism in law enforcement is an ugly reality and most people, especially supposedly sympathetic liberals, shield their eyes from it. We do not live in an impartial system marred by a few occasional sound bites worth of errors in judgment. We are far from a color-blind Canaan flowing with milk and honey...
...when a helicopter pilot flies into a cloud and can't see out his windows, it is - by definition - an emergency. The pilot must simultaneously descend until he can see lights on the ground, toggle multiple radio frequencies to inform nearby planes and airports that he is flying blind, maintain control of a twitchy aircraft in conditions he is not trained to handle, over terrain he does not know and cannot see. When flight nurses have nightmares, this is the picture on the backs of their eyelids...
...popular because it is a lightweight craft that's relatively inexpensive to fix and fuel. But many versions of the 206 don't have the space or the engine power to carry the safety equipment needed to fly at night or in bad weather. Flying an underpowered helicopter blind in foul weather is a common cause of fatal crashes, safety experts say. "There's nothing wrong with the Bell 206, but you have to recognize it's a small aircraft," says Vernon Albert, who founded 34 EMS flight programs, 15% of the nation's total fleet. "But where...
Actually, yes. Over the past few years, psychologists and behavioral economists have been studying how emotions affect our decisions. You can make a good argument that complacent cheerfulness, in the form of blind faith in our credit cards and home values, got us into this situation. And there's evidence that certain so-called negative emotions can help us get out of it. In his new book, Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, esteemed psychologist Dacher Keltner of the University of California, Berkeley, notes that we usually conceive of emotions as diseases...