this is so interesting, it kind of echoes what we've been learning about with the polis, that in it politicians can take Truth and kind of turn it in a way that helps them..

that's awesome! we should definitely take a look at this type of thing for our own welfare system.. 

Interesting point. I'd probably agree with this.

I would be as well, the key to a good democracy is working together, as they seemed to have been doing. Low blow by Boehner to back out last second after so much deliberation. 

I never knew that there was this large of an amassing of data.. It's awesome that it's available to all of us!

just like in the presidential debates where the candidates were saying completely opposite statements, yet both were somehow mostly true.

African citizens just want to be seen as individuals that are equal to us, who have simply been born into more difficult circumstances, as opposed to some diseased animal that can only survive out of the goodness of some person's heart.. it's very similar to people who are crippled and are treated as less than human. this is kind of a reminder that we need to treat everyone as equally human, because we don't know what they're going through, we just know that they're people who deserve their same God-given rights.

but appear powerless..

I found this article insanely interesting, but also a little disconcerting. The men interviewed and followed all started above average, and yet we see that most of them (at least the ones outlined in this article) had major personal issues in their life; not issues such as an important person's death, but that they had legitimate psychological issues. The ending could've wrapped up a little better what the moral of the story is from all these years of research, but I guess it's all right that they leave it on us to gleam from it what we will. 

This article seems to be meant to show us the problems with the Market point of view, but we know all this and Adam Smith knew this. Some government (minimal) is obviously required to sort of keep irrational behavior from slowing the economy

I found this insanely interesting. I agree with some parts of this and disagree with some. I think that some of our 'morality' does come from a biological sense, but that a large part of it comes from how we grow up, what our upbringing was, different situations we were put in and what kind of people we are put in close contact with at a young age. If morality was all (or at least primarily) biological and arising from evolution, then why is it that morality is so different across the human species? It's quite possible I'm way off, but that's just the basics of what i pulled from that..