The World Keeps Getting Better and Better

12/26/16. Says psychologist Steven Pinker.

http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/12/22/14042506/steven-pinker-optimistic-future-2016

How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail

12/22/16. Michael Shermer in Scientific American.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-convince-someone-when-facts-fail/?wt.mc=SA_Facebook-Share

Best Philosophy Books of 2016

12/15/2016. Getting to know you.


http://fivebooks.com/interview/best-philosophy-books-2016/

Addiction is Not a Disease

12/14/16. Tell me what disease you can make a choice to give up?

https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-high-time-that-attitudes-to-addiction-changed

Two Friends Who Changed How We Think about How We Think

12/14/16. Don't believe everything you think.


http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-two-friends-who-changed-how-we-think-about-how-we-think

Interview with Robert Crumb

12/5/16. A cartoonist - extraordinaire.


http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6017/r-crumb-the-art-of-comics-no-1-r-crumb

Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions

12/1/16. Conflict of Visions --- our political differences are based on unexamined beliefs about human nature. BRILLIANT!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkCSbANBeuI