From The New York Times Attachment parenting is an umbrella term coined by a pediatrician, William Sears, to describe a style of parenting that embraces the normal biology of pregnancy, labor, breastfeeding and bonding, all in the name of raising children who demonstrate the psychological classification of being securely attached. By definition, it eschews notions [...]
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From Politico The Agriculture Department published new research this month that further cements the significant positive impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, in combating poverty’s effects on low-income Americans. The report’s implications are clear: Lives of the 46.5 million Americans — primarily children, the elderly or disabled — who rely on [...]
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From Industry & Innovation We ask whether and what kind of unique factors influence the innovativeness of firms in clusters across geographic regions and industrial sectors. We provide evidence for the driving forces of firm innovativeness in different cluster types. Distinguishing between hierarchical clusters of mature industries and non-hierarchical clusters of young industries in North [...]
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By Phineas Upham After studying Aristotle and Augustine extensively at College and Oratory, Nicholas Malebranche (born 1638) read and became fascinated by Descartes. Malebranche agreed with the basic dualism in Descartes, but had significant disagreements with Descartes over key issues. Ordained and deeply religious he combined religion and philosophy in a meaningful and non-trivial way. [...]
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From The Guardian It is not hard to run the argument that Damien Hirst’s A-level art grade E was well-earned. Anyone bent on dismissing him will walk into his Tate Modern retrospective and find their ammunition. There are endless chemists’ cupboards. There are the spots he outsources to other painters, and which – in terms [...]
Continue readingBy Phineas Upham Maimonides’s views on reason and revelation simultaneously glorify reason as a means to understanding the holy scriptures and approach God, and also portray them as a tool, meant only for the elite, which is inherently and necessarily limited in its ability to communicate. He creates a kind of cult of knowledge and [...]
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Via The New York Times We can worry less that a newly created bird flu virus might kill tens or hundreds of millions of people if it escaped from the laboratory. But there is still some residual danger. And we remain appalled at the slipshod way in which this research was authorized despite its potential [...]
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Via The Washington Post Can the world fight global warming without nuclear power? One major industrialized country — Germany — is determined to find out, and another — Japan — is debating whether to try. Both illustrate how hard it would be. To date, nuclear is the only proven source of low-emissions “baseload” power — [...]
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By Phineas Upham Henry Mintzberg, in his article Patterns in Strategy Formation, develops a way of looking at strategy that takes serious consideration of not only of leadership, which is often placed centrally in the literature of strategy, but also history and context. Leadership, indeed, is seen as a mediator between company momentum and situational [...]
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Via Forbes You cannot buy Japanese Kobe beef in this country. Not in stores, not by mail, and certainly not in restaurants. No matter how much you have spent, how fancy a steakhouse you went to, or which of the many celebrity chefs who regularly feature “Kobe beef” on their menus you believed, you were [...]
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