— Motto of The Theosophical Society, founded in New York, 1875
Anyone can be vegan
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/16/anyone-can-be-vegan-even-cash-strapped-students
While the article doesn’t emphasize veganism as a philosophy and practice that rejects animal use – for the same reasons we reject human use – it briefly mentions ethics at the start, and supports this near the end.
So if you’re not vegan, you can find out about becoming one here: http://www.howdoigovegan.com/
Are Vitamin D Supplements Necessary?
Positive CEO results largely due to chance?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151022192337.htm
This article discusses the results of a study done by Professor of Management at Texas A&M University, Markus Fitz.
According to the article, the study shows that “over 70 percent of the [positive] CEO effect measured by past studies could be due to chance.”
How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction
The article says that while the sixth extinction hasn’t played out yet – so there’s still time to stop it – there are four unique forces that are contributing to it: 1) “global homogenisation” of flora and fauna, so that you can find species that are native to one part of the world in other parts 2) humans having become the top predator on earth 3) also being a major force in directing evolution 4) the amplification of everything through the “technosphere”: the interlink of humanity and technology.
Veganism would directly address the second force, the first to some extent, and also the third. Adopting it wholesale would change the outlook of humanity, so that it would naturally strive to avoid completing the mass extinction.
How it interacts with the technosphere – particularly the rise of intelligent machines predicted in the decades ahead – remains to be seen. But using animals doesn’t seem particularly intelligent, and if intelligent machines rise in the coming decades, it seems logical that they would encourage humans to be vegans – if they still haven’t got the message: http://www.howdoigovegan.com
“Effective development requires theory.”
— Kevin Bryan on the work of Nobel prize winning economist Angus Deaton http://bit.ly/1M6Rh3C
Who owns the world’s wealth?
What Mormon missionaries don’t go into
Not that Christianity is fine, as the video suggests, since it has similar problems.
Even so, not that many people who aren’t Mormon probably know what they believe. This video provides an overview.
The creator of it says in a comment, “Many members of the LDS church that are posting to this video are claiming the short contains lies and inaccuracies. Allow me to say that as a former missionary for the LDS church, all the precepts put forward in this video are fully supported by official LDS doctrine as taught by their own prophets and apostles through the years. (Except for my mistake of putting a garment mark on the left knee).”
Reincarnation
Cellular 