by Dr. David Fialk

It is astounding that our brains can fathom higher mathematics, when such capacity would have conferred no survival advantage to our ancient ancestors on the African savannah.

Ethical systems around the world are the result of religion. Charity, justice, tolerance, community, to the extent that they do exist, exist due to transcendental ideals first embodied in religion.

I remember a conversation I had with Anado over my famous miso soup, during which he asserted, while stirring another dollop of miso into his bowl, "We don't need religion." "You don't need religion," I countered, "Without religion people would be eating each other."

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by Philip Gambone

Arriving in the Mexico City, he found everything "pretty darn swell … a darn sight more interesting than I'd expected. Everything is exciting and comical and full of drunkenness and fornication."

"You can see Mexico being pushed into the small end of the funnel of North America with the full weight of Yanquilandia crushing down."

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by Cathi and Steven House

A small community, with little infrastructure, no builders or materials nearby, Cabo Pulmo is very far off the beaten path. Designing an accessible home in a place that is itself barely accessible presented a multitude of challenges.

...the columns for the terraces shaped from beautiful tree trunks strangled by vines, which we found in Michoacán and shipped across the Sea of Cortes; amazing granite we used for the kitchen counters which looks like an aerial photo of the arroyos, mountains and canyons of this land.

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by Les Pearson

Many of the children in the rural communities around San Miguel never receive anything on Three Kings Day, the traditional yuletide gift-giving day here in Mexico.

Their smiles tell it all.. or almost all, because my volunteers receive presents of another, less-tangible kind. Each of them tells me that this day is the most special of the year for them.

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by Thomas Humphrey, photos and text

Xuchiles are funeral offerings in the form of flowers and cacti about two meters wide and the height of a story-and-a- half building.

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by Charlotte Bell

You will see them sitting under a tree on the hillside tending the cows and working on their rugs. Or you may find them working late at night by kitchen tables after their children are asleep.

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by Charles Miller

The common denominator in these cases and many others that followed is that the customers had to pay lawyers and to go to court. That alone is a good reason to practice online safety when banking.

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by / por Jack Paulus

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por Thomas Humphrey, fotos y texto

Xuchiles son ofrendas funerarias en forma de flores y cactus de unos dos metros de ancho y la altura de un edificio de planta y media.

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by Sheridan Sansegundo

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