Why do we have sex?
The simple answer to that question and the most popular one in the modern age is because it feels good. When people have sex just because it feels good, however, there are reprocussions (namely increased sexually transmitted disease, unwanted pregnancies, and battered emotions). But watching television and films and picking up [...]

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Technology allows for greater freedom and marketing ideas in the publishing world
In a harsh economic climate and a technical paradigm shift, Code Publishing has turned to technology to help create buzz and sales for its latest book, “Everyone Agrees.” With a dynamic promotional website ( www.nezgo.com/ea ), Code Publishing lets customers choose the price they [...]

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Dave Whalen decided to take a break from his lucrative law practice in San Diego, CA, and help out charities throughout Central America—places like Belize, Honduras, and Guatamala. On a Sizuki motorcycle, Whalen left in early March from Southern California and will be, “filming throughout Central America in various missions, orphanages and service projects, including [...]

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One of the most interesting topics I approach in my latest pop philosophy book, Everyone Agrees: Book I: Words, Ideas, and a Universal Morality , is the fact that the words we use are not the ideas they represent. In other words, when you use a word—say, “fascist,” for instance, it can mean something [...]

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Why do atheists and believers argue for hours without first defining “God?”
Why do people describe Nazis and Soviets in exactly the same way yet place them on opposite ends of the political spectrum?
Why do some judge others for being judgmental? Why are some psychologists trying to disprove psychology? And how does arguing show that we [...]

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