by Adam Mazo | Jan 10, 2011 | The Public Humanist
Social media is the worst form of media, besides all those others. Apologies to Winston Churchill for repurposing his famous quote on democracy. Isn’t that what we often do with social media, repurpose quotes and video (or sometimes just copy and paste)? For...
by Patrick Vitalone | Jan 17, 2011 | The Public Humanist
If you happened to be walking about any town or city with historic buildings, roads, and structures from several different periods, then chances are that there is an organization tasked with their preservation. Not only a tool for protecting the history of a locality,...
by Ron Lamothe | Jan 24, 2011 | The Public Humanist
Twenty years ago today the Gulf War began. I remember it well. I was in Zaire that Thursday morning, riding atop the back of a lorry through the rainforest, when first I heard news that “Desert Shield” had become “Desert Storm.” One of my...
by Larry Hott | Jan 27, 2011 | The Public Humanist
I was sitting in the make-up chair for the morning news show at Globovision, a large cable network station in Caracas, Venezuela a few weeks ago. As the assistant touched up the liver spots on my bald head (they form the shape of the Hawaiian Islands to exact scale),...
by Tom Knoles | Feb 7, 2011 | The Public Humanist
Should we go? It only took us a moment to agree. We had to. Mass Humanities was sponsoring a trip to Cuba in January, 2011, and it seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After all, Americans don’t usually get to go to Cuba. And although neither of us had...
