The people are divided. They choose discord and disharmony over unity and understanding. We see conflict in every town, city, and State and strife in nearly every neighborhood, resulting in national and international discontent.  Children disrespect their parents. Parents loathe their leade...

Article originally published in Seafood Seafood Ecosystem Through generations of mismanagement and lack of understanding, our oceans have suffered greatly. Some refer to this as The Tragedy of the Commons. Healing the harm done to the oceans and encouraging good stewardship of this resource as a...

Over the past 50 years, we’ve wrapped the globe with our minds through information technology. The internet of things (IoT) already consists of billions of sensors. Virtual and augmented reality, robotics, geospatial positioning, and more are now forming a global nervous system - it has been cal...

Patriotism and Protest – inexorably bound and oftentimes indistinguishable – have always had their say through music. Whether it be the American Revolution (The Liberty Song), World War I (Over There – competing with I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier), WWII (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and Prais...

(One of the most fondly remembered aspects of the Occupy Movement is the People’s Library in Zuccotti Park, created and protected around the clock by Occupy Wall Street protesters living in the park and outside supporters of the movement who donated books. Among the books in the People’s Library...