By Vihar Sheth on August 5, 2009
On the first of this month, The New York Times published a piece by Nicholas Kristof called, “How to Lick a Slug”. In it, he talks about how children today are not in tune with the outdoors, unlike children from previous generations beginning with . . . well, beginning with the beginning. I used to [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education | Tagged General, Parks, Rivers |
By Vihar Sheth on April 30, 2009
On the same day the Missouri legislature debates funding a gap in St. Louis transit agency Metro’s budget, I had the opportunity to hop on my soapbox for a bit during a business lunch. We were talking about housing, but the conversation meandered – as it does so often these days – to the economy. [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education, Development & Transportation | Tagged Electric Cars, Personal Mobility, Tesla, Toyota Prius |
By Vihar Sheth on March 2, 2009
I recently became a fan of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on Facebook. If you don’t know anything about the FSM please visit the link. The story is an amazing one, and involves one man’s fight against the Kansas School Board on its consideration of teaching “Intelligent Design” in public schools. An old college [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education | Tagged Creationism, Intelligent Design, Purpose, Religion |
By Vihar Sheth on January 23, 2009
While approval of a new stem cell study and Barack Obama’s accession to the presidency are completely unrelated, the announcement that the first-ever human trials of stem cell therapy is monumental. Beginning this summer, a U.S. biotechnology company is going to test the safety and efficacy of stem cells on newly paralyzed people. The patients [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education, Design & Technology | Tagged Ethics, Religion, Stem Cell Research |
By Vihar Sheth on December 27, 2008
Today is a reminder that while there are plenty of religious nutjobs in America, we’re pretty lucky all things considered. Israel bombed Gaza today and Pakistan is mobilizing troops away from Afghanistan (WTF?) and towards India. But, an op-ed article published in The New York Times today called, “Heaven for the Godless?“, not only bodes [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education | Tagged Religion, Secularism, Society |
By Vihar Sheth on May 4, 2008
William C. Rhoden begins his piece in this Sunday’s The New York Times by asking, “Why do we keep giving thoroughbred horse racing a pass? Is it the tradition? The millions upon millions invested in the betting?” I’m going to go with the millions upon millions. For those of you paying attention to the annual [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education | Tagged Animal Cruelty |
By Vihar Sheth on August 15, 2007
A short article by Carolyn Tuft published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch yesterday highlights the inadequacy of school lunches offered in many major cities in the U.S. I’ve reproduced the entire article here, without permission, since it would take longer to load it than read it: St. Louis public schools have the worst nutritional value [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education |
By Vihar Sheth on May 8, 2007
Just two posts ago I wrote about an upcoming conference at Washington University in St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had an update in today’s paper called, “Universities see green at forum“, detailing some of the outcomes of the Symposium. Washington U. Chancellor Mark Wrighton said he plans to name a sustainability officer, put more [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education, Climate & Energy |
By Vihar Sheth on April 26, 2007
Back in October of last year (think St. Louis Cardinals World Series Championship) I wrote a piece called, Environmentally Friendly Universities, that focused the energy-related efforts of Washington University in St. Louis, one of my alma maters. Well, now the University is hosting the International Symposium on Energy and Environment. The Symposium, which will be [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education, Climate & Energy |
By Vihar Sheth on December 29, 2006
For most of America’s history political parties have been divided by business. As a candidate or as a voter you were either pro-business or you weren’t – and for the most part people still are. We have a tendency to draw very definitive lines in this country, and the line we’ve drawn regarding politics and business [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education, Government & Society |
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