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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The most striking difference between humans and other animals is language. This enables humans to interact and form a "collective mind" which we call culture. Language developed with the dawn of man.
Some 5,000 years ago, with the dawn of civilization humans made another great leap forward with writing. Now you could learn directly from people who you never even met, advancing knowledge tremendously.
The next great leap came with the invention of printing and the growth of literacy. Now this collective knowledge became available to ordinary people.
The Internet is truly the next great leap in collective knowledge. The fact there is something lost with each leap is simply the cost of progress. The fact that certain people don't use this in a proper way, that is an unfortunate reality.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
