Washington For Sale
Koch Industries Inc. and Exxon Mobil Corp. have helped write energy legislation through a group they finance, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Washington-based policy institute known as ALEC.
Beyond Movie Dome
For those headed to Uncle Uncanny's Music Festival in Utah, you can check out screenings of 2012: Time for Change, Wake Up, and Vine of the Soul at Evolver SLC's Movie Dome (August 12-14).
On Creativity, Marijuana and “a Butterfly Effect in Thought”
Many creative
tasks require an expansive associative net, a "flat associative hierarchy." Creative people need to make
far-reaching connections among all sorts of seemingly unrelated ideas. The heightened ability to make novel associations is the
hallmark of creative thinkers, who are always searching for epiphanies. This is why Marijuana is perhaps one
of the best cognitive tools for creativity.
