Although “conflict” is often used as a way of euphemizing war, I am actually not talking about war in this post. (although if you want to read about pulling out of a war, go to effectmeasure today.) What I mean by conflict is the discomfort I feel living a life that is unreal, and living […]

I (along with some other Mongers) recently saw a good and interesting talk on global warming by Gus Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and author of Red Sky at Morning. It was also quite alarming, as talks on global warming tend to be. But the purpose of my post […]

Abortion is a hot topic these days, but this number from the lateswt MMWR Surveillance Summary left me in a tizzy. The report starts with this fact:

In the United States, approximately 49% of all pregnancies and 30% of live births in 1994 were unintended, either mistimed or unwanted, at the time of pregnancy
Okay, so […]

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, Caesarean sections as a means to deliver babies in the United States has reached a record high, accounting for 1.2 million, or 29.1%, of deliveries in 2004.
What is interesting to me is that for all the reasons cited in the news articles that I read (and […]