This Week’s Independent Thinker
We’re such suckers for brilliance that’s also precious.
Cincinnati cop James Givens was sitting in his patrol car last week when he heard a pecking...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Alaa Murabit is founder of Voice of Libyan Women, focused on using words, not guns, to achieve diplomacy, cooperation, peace and security.
Murabit is convinced,...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
A person has to be mighty old to remember when nails, balls, pencils, cauliflower and nearly every item sold in a grocery, hardware or...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Good works have an unspoken effect on those who do the giving as much as on those who receive. Sometimes it’s outside our comfort...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
A photo essay in Yes! Magazine titled, The Seed-Saving Farmers Who Pass Down Land to Their Daughters, showed how a matrilineal Khasi tribe passes on land...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
One thousand plants are grown worldwide for food, beverages, spices and medicine. Seventy-five percent of flowering plants rely on hummingbirds, bees, butterflies and other...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
After all the yucky things we say about corporations pretending to be real people, we were pleasantly surprised that General Mills Canada has taken...