by Caleb Rounds | Feb 1, 2013 | The Public Humanist
Access to food or the land to grow it on has often been a weapon used to assure the poverty of a subjugated populace. Think of the Irish, the Native Americans, or the North Koreans. But we live in a time of immense surpluses of food in the developed world. We in the...
by Barbara Pelissier | Feb 13, 2013 | The Public Humanist
Editor’s Note: Compelled to learn more about how people survived New England winters before electricity, central heating, and supermarkets, I asked Barbara Pelissier, the president of the Westhampton Historical Society and Vice Chair of the Pioneer Valley...
by Christopher Volpe | Feb 25, 2013 | The Public Humanist
Though it remains something less than common knowledge, Massachusetts and New Hampshire played a decisive role in the birth and development of American painting. Massachusetts landscapists Thomas Doughty and Alvan Fisher were the first American artists to trade...
by James Heflin | Feb 4, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Can’t win fairly now? Change the rules! Republicans hope to gerrymander the Electoral College to prevent Democratic presidential victories. The idea is to switch to proportional allocation of electoral votes at a state level, but only in states that tend to vote...
by James Heflin | Feb 4, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
The coolest thing I’ve been sent today: scientists have created a visual approximation of what it would look like to hang out in Kurt Goedel’s model of the universe, or, as Smithsonian Mag explains it, “they show what it would look like if you could...