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...even more frustrating given that the College already has other, better alcohol education programs. FRED gives information without obfuscating the truth. Its lecturers explain what freshmen need to know by highlighting the risks of drinking and, yet, recognizing that many will drink, describing how best to drink responsibly. An hour’s lecture one night might seem inconvenient, but it’s immeasurably better than the pain of Alcohol...
...surprising, then, that this intersection of reality and unreality centers on money, arguably the core value of American society today: How else can anyone explain former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain? Second Life suggests that this warped valuation controls not only our real world, but also our fantasy world—a very troubling thought...
Indeed, the cheapening psychobabble has already begun, as just hours after the shootings, CNN and MSNBC are airing interviews with professional psychiatrists who prattle on about “alienation.” As if alienation could explain why a man felt licensed to execute 33 innocent people on a foggy April morning, killing not only his ex-girlfriend but an indiscriminate heap of young students and professors...
...alienation cannot explain such a callous indifference for the human life and the human community which he so savagely and so easily tore apart, using nothing more than 9 and 22 millimeter handguns...
...theory helps to explain some interesting things about the history of earth’s atmosphere. But the most optimistic element of the Gaia hypothesis is its forward-looking aspect. Taken to its extreme, the theory suggests that global warming will fix itself, at least partially. But there is increasing evidence that the most optimistic element of the Gaia hypothesis is, unfortunately, false...