Tag Archives: Africa

Somali Pirates Pick Fight with the United States Navy?

By Brian Brawdy | Published: April 10, 2010

I’m sorry. I just don’t get it. Imagine yourself, if you can, a Somali pirate out on the open waters marauding, looking for your next victim to pillage. All of a sudden, you see a ship off in the distance and decide, “looks like a good day for a raid.” As you get closer, you [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Crime and Punishment, Foreign Affairs, Low Lifes Making Headlines, Politics and Foreign Affairs | Also tagged A. P. Moller-Maersk Group, Asia, Buccaneer, Captain, Crime, Criminal law, Gulf of Aden, Huffington Post, Human Interest, International law, Law, Maersk Alabama hijacking, Obama, Piracy, Piracy in Somalia, Pirates, President, Privateers, Richard Phillips, Ship, Shipping, Somali language, Somali people, The Huffington Post, Tony Robbins, Transport in Somalia, United States, United States Navy, USS Ashland, Watercraft, Zig Ziglar | Leave a comment

Teaching Our Children the True Meaning of Entitlement

By Brian Brawdy | Published: March 28, 2010

The annals of Human history, if nothing else, highlight the common struggle of our species. Biblically or biologically, Life fights because it must. Evolution, sacred or secular is an ongoing struggle, a tooth and nail battle to survive. Whether we walked out of the Garden of Eden or the savannas of Africa, our trek was [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Buried Logic, Survival and Emergency Preparedness | Also tagged bible, Biology, Brian Brawdy, entitlement, fight or flight, Garden of Eden, hand-outs, handouts, human history, Human Interest, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Life, Martial Arts Academy, nanny society, nanny state, priest, Religion/Belief, Tae Kwon Do | 1 Comment

3rd Key to a Healthy Mind: Interaction and Exploration

By Brian Brawdy | Published: August 28, 2009

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Welcome to day 3 of the 7 Keys to a Healthy Mind; How Interaction and Exploration Elevates your Mood and your Mind. The debate between Science and Religion, the sacred and the secular battles between the pulpit and the petri dish do share a unique and important similarity. Whether you [...]

Posted in Adventure and Exploration, Audio Blog Post | Also tagged adventure, Anatomy, Biology, Brain, chemical disorder, Cognitive science, healthy mind, Metaphysics, Mind, nature, outdoor exploration good for the mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of mind | 1 Comment

Deforestation, Dwindling Habitats and the Human Design

By Brian Brawdy | Published: August 24, 2009

The debate between Science and Religion, the sacred and the secular battles between the pulpit and the petri dish are, for me, a waste of time. Whether you believe we walked out of the Garden of Eden or off the Savannas of Africa, there is common ground….we walked. Technically, forbidden trees or dwindling trees, either way [...]

Posted in Adventure and Exploration, Nature and Wildlife, Politics and Foreign Affairs | Also tagged Bats, Bears, Brain, CNN, Declaration of Independence, environment, Evolution, Exploration, FaceBook, food, Frederick Douglas, frogs, Garden of Eden, Google Inc., Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bears, grouse, GROW, high blood pressure, John Page, Lion, Lions, mice, Michael Roberts, mountain lions, owls, Petri dish, pharmacist, polar bears, Politics and Foreign Affairs, Pulpit, Religion/Belief, rhinos, Scavengers, scrub jays, Secularism, Secularity, Thomas Jefferson, tigers | 4 Comments

Why humans walk round and round in circles

By Brian Brawdy | Published: August 20, 2009

I’ve done it. You’ve done it. We are all guilty of it. But why do we walk in circles when we are lost? A great study, “Walking Straight into Circles” was reported on today in Current Biology and expanded upon in ScienceNOW with the article “Why we Walk in Circles.” Seems when we are lost, and have no visual clue [...]

Posted in Adventure and Exploration, Breaking News & Commentary, Buried Logic, Nature and Wildlife, Science | Also tagged Bipedalism, Brian Brawdy, Buried Logic, BuriedLogic, circle, circles, current biology, Eden, Exploration, Hawaii, light, ScienceNOw, sunlight, Tony Robbins, walking, walking in a circle, walking in circles | 3 Comments

Buried Logic May Date Back Over 70,000 Years to Ancient, Stone Age Humans

By Brian Brawdy | Published: May 13, 2009

In recent findings reported in National Geographic News, Scientists now believe that Stone Age Humans may not have only been smarter than we first thought, they may have possessed mental faculties not unlike our own. Reading the article, my mind slipped back to elementary math class and the Symmetric Property of Equality: If A=B then B=A. [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Buried Logic, Nature and Wildlife, Science | Also tagged Ancient Humans, BA's, Brian Brawdy, Buried Logic, Eden, Humans, Modern Humans, National Geographic News, Stone Age, Survival, Symmetric Property of Equality | Leave a comment

Make No Mistake. There is Dirt in Your DNA.

By Brian Brawdy | Published: November 19, 2008

Make no mistake. There is Dirt In Your DNA Ignoring the debate between science and religion, the “big bang” or the “big breath”, our planet is the common ground. Did we walk out of Africa or were we banished from Eden? Descent with modification or disobeying the forbidden fruit rule? Do you side with the opinions of the [...]