World Watch - February 6, 2005 - Does Democracy Really Work? - The Ornery American
Well-known author Orson Scott Card looks at The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations by James Surowiecki, a business writer for The New Yorker; with a side mention of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. It's a longish essay, but with meat and intelligence to it, and it contains interesting historical background. The link is to the World Watch column at ornery.org.
Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
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Benjamin MacDonald is the six year old younger son of William and Esther
MacDonald. The year is 1870, and the place is somewhere to the north of
Winnipeg, ...
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