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Maybe this will lighten the ever-dismal mood here on ProU a bit but still be thought-provoking?  Read More »

Over a thousand institutions across the country (my own college included) have been participating in Focus the Nation today. Panel discussions, screenings of "The 2% Solution," and lectures aimed at educating the public about the truths and myths surrounding climate change have, I hope, been successful.  Read More »

"Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us
And show us to be watchers. Be not lost
So poorly in your thoughts."
-- Lady Macbeth, Macbeth II.ii.68-70  Read More »

Both my mother and I work in retail and noted how this year's Christmas crowds didn't seem quite so bad as in years past, from both the shopper and the employee points of view.  Read More »

This morning in my local newspaper, The Bangor Daily News, I read the opinion piece "Ulysses and the Hedge Trimmer" by Martin Bunzl, philosophy professor and director of the Initiative on Climate Change, Social Policy and Politics at Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Poli  Read More »

A friend recently told me about The Story of Stuff, a short film that examines the production, consumption, and waste processes and suggests what we can do about them. Did you know that only one percent of what we in North America buy is still in use six months later?  Read More »

What a horrible way for the new year to begin: John Granville, a US diplomat seeking the distribution of radios to Sudanese citizens, was shot and killed this morning in Khartoum, Sudan's capital.  Read More »

If any of you have been reading my blog faithfully for the past few months, you know that I'm studying abroad in Edinburgh this semester. This morning I found an article about the reading and maths scores for British* secondary school students have slipped off the international league table since 2000.  Read More »