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Road to “higher” Learning.

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All over America this week. Parents are taking precious offspring to a new life on college campuses. They will unpack them, kiss them goodbye and send them on their way to establish new relationships, on the road to higher learning. By next week, daughters will be flashing old townies, and sons will be throwing up […]

Glacier National Park Wilderness

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Even Glacier National Park Wilderness Can’t Escape the Hubris and Wrath of the Man-Gods BY STEVE KELLY It’s been decided.  Glacier National Park won’t be deterred from sprinting ahead with its grand experiment to use poison to kill rainbow trout planted in Gunsight Lake a century ago.  Back then, Gunsight Lake had no fish. Rather than restore […]

Rigid Values are Killing Us

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This is a repost of a post, which I think is beneficial to us all in regards to climate change. It is written as a blog post by Guilherme B. Guzzo: In a very interesting passage of “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance”, Robert Pirsig uses a metaphor to describe how the rigidity of […]