Category Archives: health

Injecting Kindness into the Debate

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

Vaccines are a topic that stir up a lot of emotions. How should we talk about them? Will anything we do make a difference? What if we frame the question somewhat differently: can we make a difference by the way behave in our interactions with other people? Continue reading →

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Why Science?

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

Why science? Because science is the one gig in town that’s sitting down around the table and thinking hard on ‘how can we truly know something?’ Continue reading →

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Natural Assumptions

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Thoughtscapism

Iida writes of her attempt to defend organic, of the risks of repeating slogans, and of how pieces of worldview are built and change, sometimes as easily as with a comment or two. Continue reading →

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