Articles Posted in Human Condition
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The Cult of the Anti-Personality
Houston, errr, no, America, we have a problem! The concept of the “cult of personality” has become well-known in the general public in recent years, having become a part of the “ordinary knowledge” of the…
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Down with Earth Day! Up with Earth Year!
For the past 53 years people have celebrated an Earth Day. Its beginning years were extremely valuable and eventful. Before the first official Earth Day in 1969, we were slowly emerging out of what might…
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Putting Environmental Impacts Labels on Clothing
…But what about a Humans Rights label? The Russian fable of Potemkin Village tells the story of a village leader who, wanting to impress the Tsar, ordered that the fronts of all the buildings that…
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Guest Editorial: From Blind Copying (bcc) to Basics (abc) in Science. -Ilan Kelman, CICERO, Oslo
Author: Ilan Kelman Science has become mired in blindness; it is dominated by bcc representing “blind copying”. That is, blindly copying what has gone before without innovative thought. In science today, bcc means Bureaucracy, Corporatism, and…
“A Curse on Being Creative” GUEST EDITORIAL by Ilan Kelman, CICERO, Norway. September 24, 2012
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“A Curse on Being Creative”. GUEST EDITORIAL by Ilan Kelman, CICERO, Norway September 24, 2012. I am often treated to the quotation, or variations thereof, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of…
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