Archive for February, 2010

Disaster Aversion

Monday, February 15th, 2010

David Stairs
I want to be upfront about this: I’m not giving any money to Haitian relief. That sounds mean-spirited, I know. But truth be told, on the heels of my Oxfam donation following the tsunami, I was already beginning to feel relief fatigue.
Although they dispute this statement, Architecture for Humanity, an organization I’ve promoted for [...]

Nature:Culture/Evolution:Epigenetics

Monday, February 1st, 2010

David Stairs
“The professional tends to specialize and to merge his being uncritically in the mass. The ground rules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is uncritical and unaware.”1
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