Our culture doesn’t like termites. We associate them with being destructive and exterminate them. As much as our attitude is based in reality, compared to what they’re beginning to do with termites in Africa, it may reflect a certain bias. Termites, as well as ants, are used to improve crop yield. Given the one billion…

Anders Behring Breivik as we have all heard killed 77 people in Norway last Summer. He has been undergoing psychiatric evaluation. The two psychiatrists who examined him have found him to have paranoid schizophrenic psychosis. But several forensic psychiatrists disagree believing that he suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder. They question the diagnosis of mental…

It’s safe to say that to a person those reading this aren’t being abused, persecuted, jailed for their beliefs, or aren’t living under the hardships of civic strife and wars. We all enjoy basic freedoms of religion, speech, assembly. We can dislike our elected representatives and say so without reprisals. We enjoy a certain material…