From a while back, to a friend:
I've been reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, which is pretty interesting - how people domesticated plants and animals, and why some "tribes" got more advanced than others. Human development history. I just finished a couple of audiobooks from the library on religion. Actually, they are Teaching Company courses, one on the history of Islam and the other on early Christianity.
Also, there was a really interesting Science Friday program on Neural Plasticity. This lady wrote a book about the Dali Lama's interest in current brain science, and all the new ways of rehabilitating brain injuries. It's at http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Jan/hour2_013098.html, but I downloaded it on my ipod. It's really interesting.
They tried to get me to run for city council in (censored city name) again, so I could help with our (political issue). It's sort of like the Iraq war: we were told a bunch of lies, we voted for a course of action based on those lies, the leadership proceeded to prove that they were wrong and didn't know what they were doing, and now we're stuck. The only difference is there's no bombs involved with our intractable situation.
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