http://www.ira-einhorn.com The Unicorn's home on the web Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:26:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a capitalist society the mediating force that controls almost every action is money. Think upon those SS troops that hour after hour put guns to the heads of innocent Jewish men, women and children. They were involved in the unmediated execution of their societies’ will as formulated and promulgated ... http://www.ira-einhorn.com/archives/191 The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity By James Lovelock Basic Books, 2007 208 pages Piggy was right: we must have rules and that is not just to be applied to the English. This morning I buzzed my cell door and it didn’t open as the man at ... http://www.ira-einhorn.com/archives/189 Hormonal chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis By Sheldon Krimsky The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 256 pages To come to any understanding of the time we lie in the study of stress is essential. It is one of the key factors that must be included in any ... http://www.ira-einhorn.com/archives/187 The democratization process that took place, in America and Europe during the period from 1776-1850 was severely restricted by gender, color and class. Numerous intellectuals supported these restrictions for they feared mob rule and the emergence of leaders who would utilize ignorance to lead the mob in directions that both ... http://www.ira-einhorn.com/archives/185 Mothers and others: the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Belknap Press, 2009 432 pages Science proceeds by minute particulars. Every statement must be backed up by a citation. If one is to earn the right to make a radical statement, as Sarah Blaffer Hrdy does at the end of her ... http://www.ira-einhorn.com/archives/183 The energy generated by the enthusiasm of the 60s was dissipated in the futile life style and political battles that ruled the 70s and cancelled the warning red flags that the 60s generated. Almost 40 years have been lost in battles that have produced heat rather than light. If conservation ha ... http://www.ira-einhorn.com/archives/180 The Age of Entanglement: when quantum physics was reborn By Louisa Gilder Knopf, 2008 464 pages The elevation of physics during the course of the 20th century to a position of great eminence – as evidenced by the billions spent on devices that allow us to both peer back in time and deep within ... http://www.ira-einhorn.com/archives/178 Most of those who end up incarcerated, whether guilty or innocent, suffer from an educational and cultural deficiency that is a major cause of the incarceration and will lead to a life of incarceration if the deficiency is not corrected. The future belongs to those with education. We live in a society ... http://www.ira-einhorn.com/archives/176 June 16, 2009 Dear Mr. Einhorn: I was a friend of the late author William Styron. In helping Styron’s widow to gather his letters for publication, I’ve come across a remarkable letter you wrote to him in 1962 about his novel Set This House on Fire. I feel certain that ... http://www.ira-einhorn.com/archives/171 Eifelheim By Michael Flynn Tor Books, 2006 320 pages Eifelheim by Michael Flynn was an unusual science fiction book as it created a depth of character that is rare in science fiction which is often long on ideas but deeply lacking in depth of character, depending on stick figures to convey its ideas. The novel ... http://www.ira-einhorn.com/archives/169