What are Articles about Social Issues Doing on an Educational Website?

Some people read our articles about healthcare dysfunction and nuclear proliferation and wonder about the connection of these subjects with language arts and social studies. We are currently working on the state-mandated curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12. But we can’t help but notice that there is a big gap between the items on this [...]

World at Risk

After a six-month study the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism reports that “Unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end [...]

The Need to Understand Mental Disorders

Recent studies have shown that approximately one in four American adults have a diagnosable mental disorder. This means that just a little more than 26 million American adults deal with mental illness in their own lives and countless others are affected by it. Add to this the many other people that suffer from less serious, [...]

We Have Been Warned

We have all heard the quote “All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” There are various versions of it and it is unclear whether Edmund Burke, who it is usually attributed to, actually said it. But the truth of it has stood the test of time and [...]

An Approach to Happiness Made Simple

Approximately a year ago I read a book entitled Transcending the Levels of Consciousness by David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD. I was struck by a chart in appendix A that listed a hierarchy of emotional states. The negative emotions were listed at the bottom and the positive emotions were listed at the top of the [...]