Science from Away: Carbon—The Source of Climate Change
By Mark M Green (sciencefromaway.com) Carbon is a great element. It loves to bond with itself leading to all that fat around our midsections. Carbon […]
Fracking at Your Neighborhood Nuclear Power Plant
By Reverend Donna Schaper There are 30 million people near enough to the Indian Point Power Plant to be affected by any difficulty or disaster […]
Performance Treadmill (Part One)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia Every day, we are bombarded with images, which send a clear message that “Thin is in,” and that looks matter. With […]
Stress! Tools to Help
By Ron Elve Some of us are anxious and unhappy when confronted with fairly trivial situations such as road rage, but others are quite calm […]
Science from Away: Recently Read Science
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) I have two children who are millennials, born between 1980 and 2000. One is a vegetarian and the other a […]
April’s Fool
By Keith Michael This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. ~Mark Twain, […]
It’s a Spring Thing
By Keith Michael So far this winter we’ve had a record-breaking heat wave, a record-breaking one-day blizzard, and a record-breaking deep freeze outside our front […]
Mental Self Help
By Ron Elve Self Help is usually an important part of any ongoing CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) or other counseling. It involves concrete effective advanced […]
Science from Away: Block Zika with a Plant and a Pot of Water
By Mark M. Green sciencefromaway.com Robert L. Metcalf (1916-1998), one of the most influential entomologists of the 20th century, was one of the first to […]
Repetition of Unhealthy Patterns: How to Stop the Hamster Wheel
By Christina Raccuia Humans seek comfort in the familiar. Freud called this repetition compulsion, which he famously defined as “the desire to return to an […]
United Nations Conference on Climate Change: Paris Meets New York Ecologically
By Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper Bill McKibben was right when he said that the UNCOP21 conference on climate change in Paris did not save the […]
Science from Away: Believe it or Not
By Mark M Green (sciencefromaway.com) I’ve been collecting articles in the scientific literature about climate change. There follows here some highlights. Some climate scientists believe […]
Bright Kids: Born or Developed
By Ron Elve Yes, prodigies are just born and we should support their strengths and even stay out of their way. Though it is also […]
Winter Wonderland
By Keith Michael Damp. Damp. Damp. “Millie, I don’t think ‘damp’ is what the crow across the street is crowing about.” Wet sidewalk aside (from […]
Setting Boundaries and Learning to Love Ourselves
By Christina Raccuia Boundaries. We all know the word but few understand how we are affected when boundaries are either fluid or non-existent. Setting boundaries […]
Bird of the Year
By Keith Michael We’re gathered here on New Year’s Day at the selfie-magnet intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets to announce the anxiously […]
Science from Away: Some Selected Scientific Stuff
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) Bumblebees can sport long tongues or short tongues. Scientists working in the Colorado Mountains find that the long tongue species […]
Influence of Sibling Order
By Ron Elve Yes, the jury is still out on how influential sibling order is. But noting and considering the differences related to sibling order […]