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If you live in a community where you can go into a grocery store and do your shopping and leave your windows rolled down in your car and your laptop on the front seat and you do this as a matter of course, you been doing it for years and you don’t worry about it getting stolen.   If you live in a community where for years you have been going to bed at night with your doors and windows unlocked and your keys in the ignition in your car parked in the driveway.   Robert Putnam would say that you have a lot of, and you apparently are fortunate enough to live in a community where there is a lot of

In the documentary “Chasing Ice” there was a scene where Balog and a colleague were lowering themselves down into a moulan that seemed “bottomless.” Where was this?

You have a society where there is a lot of thin trust. Is that a good thing or not such a good thing?

According to Dr. Gidon Eshell in the documentary Before The Flood, you could play a significant role in cutting down on the emission of greenhouse gases if you cut out of your diet which of the following foods?

Visiting with friends and neighbors in each others homes is down.  Frequency of going out with friends to clubs, bars, movies, dances, concerts, and restaurants is up.

What is more important when you consider the causes of addiction?

We can conclude from Dr. Bruce Axexander’s Rat Park experiments that addiction is caused by

The Commission on Children at risk say that levels of depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorders, thoughts of suicide, and other serious mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders are at crisis levels in our society. They say it is because of

As a rough rule of thumb, if you belong to no groups but decide to join one, you cut your risk of dying over the next year  _____________.

For thousands of years the earth’s atmosphere was, in a sense, pristine ( in its natural state).  Then something started happening to screw it up.  What?