“The Kindness Advantage”: Valuable Info for Flatiron Parents from Noted Therapists’ New Book

Reported for the Flatiron Hot! News by Eric Shapiro & Edited by the Flatiron Hot! News Editorial Staff

As our Flatiron/Chelsea neighborhood, home of the Flatiron Hot! News and its sponsor the NYC Seminar and Conference Center, continues to evolve … Read More

How Cellphone Games Rot Our Brains, Poison Our Souls and Ruin Society

Cellphone games are evil. Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but not as much as you might think. First and foremost, they deprive us of an ostensibly unpleasant activity: doing nothing. Waiting. A lot of good things happen … Read More

Anarchy or Oligarchy? Finding a Reasonable Middle Ground on Internet Policy

“Global electronic, unmediated communication, often masked by encryption, has collapsed time and space. Global communication and organization by non-elites is stimulating a reaction by elites. Powerful institutions cannot ignore the threats that open, anarchistic systems seem to present. Thus reactions … Read More

The Politics and Demographics of Climate Change Denial

I suspect that after I listed some commonly accepted (by the scientific establishment) factoids, you have come to the conclusion that our planet is suffering from a deterioration of the environment due to one major trend – heating up of the atmosphere all over the world.

In our last discussion, I pointed out that about 14% of Americans don’t “believe” in global warming and about 30% question whether or not human activity contributes to global warming. Yet a huge majority of scientists accept the data. Read More