Forty four years ago, I heard this rather unsettling half-poem in the pipe-tobacco-infused offices of Emil Wolfgang Menzel, primatologist emeritus at New York’s Stony Brook University. It went something like this. “Higamous hogamous, women are monogamous. Higamous pigamous, men are polygamous.” In layman terms it means: Women want to have babies with only one partner… Continue reading What’s Love Got to do With It? Or Sadness, Anger, Fear, Surprise, or Happiness?

Remember handkerchiefs? For our younger readers, there was a time when, if you had to blow your nose, you used an ornate square of cloth kept in your purse or pocket. Here’s the weird part: you didn’t throw it out. You tucked your “snot rag” away to use over again until it was deemed dirty.… Continue reading Wasting Time Wasting Energy

Misshapen spires of cumulonimbus clouds plopped randomly across the moon-lit sky lurked like sullen sentries in our path. “Squalls,” mumbled the skipper of the Santa Cruz 50, a fiberglass missile of a sailboat which had been my home since leaving the security of California’s coast for one of yachting’s most storied races. Pondering those ominous… Continue reading Transpac: The Call of the Squall

NBN so clearly remembers waking up Nov. 4, 2016 with a new-found sense that we’re saps. Not simply because our country had just elected a president completely opposed to all our hopes and dreams for humanity. Rather, it was the discovery that so many don’t share those hopes and dreams including, as it would turn… Continue reading The Bubba Bros: Fraternity in Fanaticism

With a lot of help from an out-dated electoral process, and a little push from those who would do us harm, the United States finds itself today being ruled by the unruly. George Orwell called them Proles and Hillary Clinton called them deplorables. Sarah Palin called them Soccer Mom and Jon McCain called them Joe… Continue reading The Siren’s Song of Idiot America

As NBN noodled over a line of logic to leverage into an entire issue, we came upon this one very simple question: Would Jesus vote for Trump? Would The Prince of Peace support a guy who places winning or losing above all else? Would the man who forgives trespassers back a president who puts them… Continue reading Is Conservative Christian Capitalism Our Culture?

Dear News by Nature readers—and yes, you are dear, all six of you—the editorial department at NBN is pleased to announce we are returning to publishing with a piece titled Leadership in MAGA America. Making money is the reason we’ve not indulged our biting wit and searing sarcasm in what is clearly the golden age of… Continue reading Spring 2019 Blog: This week, or Month, in News by Nature: Leadership

At NBN we love watching Hollywood heroes. Productive workdays grind to halt when we happen upon YouTubes of Platoon, The Big Short, Shawshank Redemption, Do the Right Thing, and Fiddler on the Roof to name a few. What kind of heroes are Teyva and Mookie? They are real people who do the right thing, simply… Continue reading Winter 2019-20: Cheating, An American Success Story

If there is one lesson we’ve learned from the corona virus outbreak, it’s that time and technology do not suffer fools gladly. It’s for the lack of this lesson that the folks running the country put America First in COVID contractions, collapsing our consumer economy in the process. Yet, as those same folks struggle to… Continue reading Spring 2020: When Laissez Fare Loses Its Luster