Vegan Recipe: Pickled Beets
You can still find local beets around, thanks to their late harvest and long shelf life. Pickling these earthy, vibrant vegetables will help them last…
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Talking about the Green
Something’s happening. For some time now, there have been efforts all around steering us in a direction—to be healthier, more sustainable, and kinder to the…
Salad days: A five-day experiment in the world of healthy eating
I’ve never been a healthy eater. That’s actually an understatement. I’ve been known to intake approximately one poutine per week. As I’ve “matured,” I’ve seen…
Most evil man on television: Breaking Bad challenges viewers to cheer for the bad guy
I’ll start with a brief disclaimer: if you aren’t caught up with Breaking Bad, or have yet to start watching the award-winning AMC drama, do…
Hating horror: The scapegoat genre
A man chokes out a high-pitched wail. He is thrashing face down on a weight lifting bench as a drill churns his anal cavity into borscht….
Evil in the forebrain: The neuroscience of psychopathy
The myth of “pure evil” is a bad joke, resulting from and sustained by other unhelpful binaries: good and bad, right and wrong, normal and…
The “evil” machine: An expression of our fears
“At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away…
Constructing a monster
Do enough shopping for little nieces and nephews and you’ll eventually stumble upon a toy kit from the Melissa and Doug line called Make-Your-Own Monster…
How evil is a socially constructed concept: Evil across societies
Everyone takes evil for granted. We tend to see things as either inherently or objectively evil. The age-old debate of good versus evil often comes…
The study of evil: U of M course deals with the tough topic of evil
You might not think that evil or the moralistic struggle between good and evil would play a role in a university classroom setting, where a…