Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

The trend is alarming - the media is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands every day it seems. And the owners are the same big guys who chu...

It should be a sacred thing. And indeed, our food philosophy used to be closer to common sense in the past. My parents, already a generation...

Our thinking. Our philosophies of life. These are things we take for granted most of the time. "That's just the way it is," we...

The truth will set you free, it is written. OK, good. But knowing what the truth is, recognizing it when it pulls up alongside, ah, that...

Vaccines have been sold as essential for our survival. And we're vaccinating a significantly larger number of kids because of it. Many h...

It's a philosophy deeply entrenched in our North American view of life: make your money work for you, leverage your investments, make mo...

Wagner believed in Mozart, Beethoven and God. Not necessarily in that order, but in all three. Schumann called music the language that permi...

He revolutionized the field of medicine, and has numerous institutions named after him for his efforts. He was one of the most celebrated sc...

The literature is full of advice about what you need to do to attain it. You'll hear loads about purpose, about forming habits, about li...

The biggest 20th century one killed millions. An outbreak in the mid-20th century killed far less. '68 was the last big one, but back in...

Everyone has weighed in with opinions on the subject. The comments flow endlessly from book titles and magazine articles. Our predominating ...

Hundreds of years before the meteoric rise of Cisco Systems or Qualcomm stock prices, Semper Augustus tulip bulbs were selling for the price...

Its victim list is a long one that includes some of the most famous personalities of the 20th century. But it's the less well-known stor...

They're forecasting possible energy price hikes of 30 - 50% this year. On top of a recession, it's hardly good news. We've been ...

Philosopher David Hume called it the most contentious issue in metaphysics. Actually, nearly every major figure in the history of philosophy...

We've heard the spin. The rhetoric-loaded speeches that gave us goosebumps. The hand-on-the-heart pledges that promised to lead us out o...

Unemployment rates are the highest in 16 years. We've got massive foreclosures and forecasts of trillion dollar deficits. Our kids have ...

We put up the decorations. We send out the cards with the heartfelt wishes for peace and goodwill. We sometimes sing the songs. But the desi...

Everybody has theories about what's causing our current economic breakdown. Those raised on the French philosophy of Sartre and Voltaire...

Normally we see a person with serious problems we recommend professional help. After all, we go to the gym to keep our bodies toned, we go t...