With statistics indicating that the world population will touch a total of seven billion people, many are beginning to become concerned about the future population’s impact on the world’s economies, environments and the resources currently and potentially available. While steady birth rates could be managed efficiently by developed countries, rapidly increasing...

While the cowboys and Indians trope was playing itself out all over Great Falls (minus the Indian artists who did not stage a show this year), Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art was exhibiting quite different sorts of work. www.the-square.org to see for yourself.  The building dates back to the onset of “civilization” and progress in Great Falls and is named for the...

Schools of writing are like schools of fish.  The authors are all pretty similar, they group up and move as one, and if you like that kind of fish, you should look for the school.  I could put in a quip about bottom-feeders or flying fish here, but I’ll refrain.  This time.   In the last few weeks in several literary contexts there have been “apples and oranges”...

Compromise is a hoary old bear who messes up rebellion and status quo alike. It is at the heart of democracy. Sometimes if the compromise fails, one side or the other gets its way entirely, but at what cost? It’s better than warfare, but sometimes only barely. (Bearly. Bear market. I always get jokey when I’m worried.) Sometimes the compromise means lose/lose. Sometimes...

In an interview with one of Nintendo’s famous software developers, Shigeru Miyamoto, the interviewed stated that he will be working on the Nintendo DS to be assimilated as a learning tool into the Japanese school system, specifically elementary and junior high schools. Before he went out to receive the Fellowship award at the 2010 British Academy of Film and Television...