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“Brother, can you spare a paradigm?”

I remember when the word “paradigm” first slid into philosophical discourse, with Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which he argued that there is an essential discontinuity between one scientific structure, or “paradigm” and the one that preceded it. That we cannot logically derive the new one from the old one. […]

Good News: Ben and Jerrys, Whole Foods, and Chipotle all say they will voluntarily label GMO products — where possible . . .

How possible? The problem is, by law, in the U.S. (and in Canada) GMO foods do not have to be identified. (Remember “Proposition 37,” last year’s ill-fated California ballot initiative to label all GMO products?) “As much as 86% of U.S. corn is GMO.” No wonder Chipotle says they can’t guarantee their corn tortillas are […]

Good News: Oregon approves a pay-it-forward plan for free college tuition on the same day that student loan interest rates doubled

July 1st has come and gone. Interest on that $1 trillion dollar student loan load did double, from 3.4% to 6.8% What are we going to do about it? Clearly, doing nothing isn’t working. For an extended analysis of the disgraceful national situation: Do We Hate Our Children? The Insane System That Turns Young Adults […]