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Selfishness and Human Dependence, Part 4: Can Culture Come to...
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB
The three preceding parts of the essay discussed: the fact that we are a species like any other animal,...
Selfishness and Human Dependence, Part 3: How Can People Get...
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB
Now back to the question I posed in Part 1: How can we deal with the fact that we...
Derryn Hinch Supports the Washington Syria Script
Derryn Hinch writes in The Age today (3/11/15):
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has gassed and bombed hundreds of thousands of his own people. Australia must...
Selfishness and Human Dependence, Part 2 Whence Values? Whither Values?
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB
In Part 1, I claimed that mammals are basically selfish (as in self-sufficient), but that our species has got...
Selfishness and Human Dependence, Part 1 (Referencing Thomas’ “Confessions of a Sociopath”)
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB
For every member of any mammal species, including primates, selfishness is a necessity. That is, one has to look...
Trick or Treat? The Price of Money Is a Big, Fat...
Halloween is rather new to Australia. Some children went trick or treating last night. This may stimulate sales of candy and of costumes --...
Five Collateral Deaths in Boston Marathon Situation So Far
Ibragim Todashev (age 27)
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB
Who, if anyone, has died so far, as a consequence of the April 15, 2013 Boston...
Neuroplasticity, Parkinson’s and the Excellent Autism Research of Laypersons
by Mary W Maxwell
One of my first articles at Gumshoe News was about a 17-year-old intellectual, Ido Kedar, who had written a fascinating account...
The Political “Turntable” and Death by Fracking
Last Wednesday evening, cotton farmer George Bender took his own life after more than a decade of fighting resource companies planning to build CSG wells...
Royal Commission on Institutional Response, and Senator Heffernan’s Plea
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB
“I swear by Almighty God that the evidence I give to this Royal Commission will be the truth, the...
Destabilizers for Hire at Camp Liberty – Country #7 on the...
"It would be easy to ignore the condition and plight of 2400 Iranians who are at Camp Liberty in Iraq. There's so much before...
The Political Response to the Dutch Report on MH17
By James O’Neill*
The political and media response to the report of the Dutch Safety Board into the crash of MH17 on 17 July 2014 has...