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Numerous books have been written on the subject of the origin of wars and why we humans continue to fight them. War is our greatest irony: our worse exhibition of mindless hatred and at the same time, the best example…
Few Things have had a more profound effect on human development than language, especially the ability to write on clay, stone, papyrus, or paper what we are thinking and what we want to say to other humans. Many species of…
The world would certainly be a dull place without potato chips, French fries, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, tater tots, potato skins, colcannon, potato salad, potato pancakes, a freeze-dried potato called chuno, and dozens of other delicious foods, as well as…
Chances are that unless you live in the far north around the Artic Circle, you have eaten a wheat product in the last 24 hours. If you enjoyed your bread, pasta, pizza, cookies, cake, pretzels, couscous, crackers, wheat flakes cereal,…
We have always tried to understand ourselves and cope with all the things that happen to us from birth, to happiness, to disease, to death. Thousands of years ago, as soon as we reached a level of consciousness that caused…
Years ago, the Potawatomi tribe of Native Americans, located in what is now northeast Wisconsin around the Great Lakes area, began teaching their children seven philosophical teachings that would help them to have good relations with their fellow tribesmen and…
Nearly every culture on Earth has an origin story. We humans have always had a driving desire to know where we came from and how we got here. Many years before science started giving us the answers we sought, our…
It was probably not the intent of neolithic farmers 10,000 years ago to turn a type of wild grass into one of today’s multi-billion-dollar crops. They were merely trying to render edible the plants they found growing around them. These…
We’ve all heard the expression “publish or perish” when applied to an academic career. Many universities, for example, require a certain level of publication in scholarly journals in order for an instructor to get tenure. Although Thomas Harriot was not…
There are a few inventions humans have come up with that literally changed our behavior patterns. Probably the first two that come to mind are agriculture and language. We must eat and we must communicate. For thousands of years early…
