Society and Reality

The 50th Anniversary Special Edition of NewScientist has an article by Mary Roach called “What Happens After You Die?”
Mentioned in the article is an experiment by Bradford in 1921 described as follows:
… Bradford sealed the doors and windows of his rented room in Detroit, Michigan, blew out the pilot on his heater, and turned on […]

Huff Po put the tiger in the playpen by allowing Dawkins to blog. This blog sums up well his new book. Go have a look here.

If we rely on markets to correct global problems, what if the problems effect the environment such that repairs take hundreds, thousands, or millions of years? Evolution has a hidden hand too, and it can spank us if we get out of line.

Perhaps the levels of Critical Realism are not so clear cut, or some mechanisms should be considered meta-mechanisms.