The Renaissance and Synergistic Environmental Science

Buckminster Fuller and Sir CP Snow warned that the existing unbalanced understanding of the second law of thermodynamics was accelerating civilization toward global disaster. To avoid that disaster, modern science needed to reunite with the life science of the classical Greek era humanities. A question arises, is it possible for the Arts to build a …

A college student hates Trump and promises to vote for Clinton – why? He may not surprise you much

Not long ago I met a cool and personable college student who was studying at Starbucks, she attends the local State University for 4 years here. Well, I thought she was a nice and polite college student until she started talking about her politics. Let me give you a rundown on all of this because, …

German-American Israelites?

Nicholas Kumanoff’s “Born German, Made American” in The Atlantic Times reveals how “to demonstrate their patriotism, immigrants abandoned their old identities.” In the wake of “virulent anti-German sentiment” that spread to several states, German classes were banned in schools, German books were burned in the streets, frankfurters were turned into hot dogs, and sauerkraut was …

Francis McKamie, the government troublemaker

He was known as a “troublemaker of governments” and is credited with bringing Presbyterianism to America. Although his impact was significant, few people recognize the name Francis McKamie (at the time, the spelling was often phonetic, so many variations of McKamie exist, including Makemie, McCamy, and McKimmey. There was also a trend among those fleeing …