The Idea Man Our writers and editors come up with the strangest ideas... 1. Microsoft mystery solved! Is Microsoft just a stalking horse for the oil companies? 2. The Arts of Smoking. How big tobacco is missing out on the art-nicotine connection. 3. Interfaces. Humans LIKE difficult interfaces (the piano, for example) that offer big creative payoffs. 4. Environmental Rectitude. The Universe is OK, even if we're not. 5. European Culture. High culture + low culture = America. 6. Overlooked Rich Niche Market. The unexploited passion of high-culture niche markets. 7. A Door to the Possibility of Forgiving Your Parents. 8. Novalis's Fallacy. If just one Zen Buddhist had gone to Europe around 1800... 9. A Question about China. Eastern puritanism vs. fornication on an unprecedented scale. 10. Civic-funding Solution: Capitalism at its Best! Imprint messages on the beaches. 11. Fear About-face. Re-thinking the fear of death. 12. The Spread of Consciousness. The unexpected appearance of consciousness. 13. Miasma & Mediocrity. The (current) age of mediocrity. 14. Cosmic Cop-out. Just how big is the joke on us? 15. Closed Rooms and CSICOP. The dangerous limitations of reductive, orthodox scientific thinking. 16. How Do You Tell a Bush from a Shrub from a Weed? Why George W. reminds us so much of Dan Quayle. 17. Boomers & the Grim Reaper. 18. The Willed Suspension of Belief. Why Coleridge had it exactly bass ackwards. 19. Dreamtime. Dreaming about dreams. 20. Sagely Statistics. Where did all the Buddhas go? 21. Clothesed Secret. Why we keep on covering our bodies. 22. The Dick Principle. Beyond the Peter Principle, in the cyber world. 23. The Four Tyrannies. Why we keep repeating ourselves historically and culturally. 24. The Absurd Behavior of Electrons. Quantum leap, anyone? 25. The Age of Emesis: 1900-2000. What was really wrong with the 20th century. 26. Thought Unbound: Reality Addiction. The last hangup. 27. Stammtisch Homeboy. Thanks to computers, maybe the Westside Story becomes the northside story. 28. Cosmology: A Thought Experiment. Our in-house eschatologist, lets his science-based imagination take wing and questions whether the cosmological King's New Clothes exist at all. 29. Nicotine Stains. Henery Bob Kulup on the unknown dangers of a nicotine-free society. 30. Let 'Em Speak Greek. Henry Bob Kulup. What's wrong with America's schools and how to fix 'em. 31. Teaching: A Thought Experiment. Angus Verspeeten. A little help along the cosmic way. 32. Moments Musicaux. Henry Kulup. The disappearance of music from private discourse. 33. Me and the Archie Bunker Syndrome. Sawyer Brown. Truth in voting. 34. Trennungsangst. Ulrich von Kleinschwanz- Ohnehosen. Why what's wrong is wrong. Maybe. 35. The Enigma of Pong et seq. Douglas Milburn. Videogames and the origins of consciousness. 36. Lascaux Redux: The Origin of Sub-Species. Reppy Toppenish. 37. Les naivités dangereuses. Rean Rhyne. The dangerous misuse, and death, of words. 38. It's the Education, Stupid. Michelle Furr looks for a way through the wilderness. 39. Welcome back, history! Doc Cuddy harshly chides the young and middle-aged greedy. 40. On Leadership. Doc Cuddy bemoans the lack thereof. 41. Dominion and Illusion. Michelle Furr on the problem of invisible empires. 42. Here Comes Ugly. Pedkop Bumbera is really worried about next year's cars. 43. Dutch Doc Does Death Doubletake. Pedro Bofecillow on near-death experience research. (In The Chiliastic Hideon) 44. The
King of the Earth. Lulu Dilworth on the world's reversion to monarchy, under
guess-who.
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