[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues Readings for October 31

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today's Issues group is meeting at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in the
parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church.  For this
Sunday we will be discussing two essays from the October 21 issue of the
New York Review of Books

Page 32, Gregory Hyes, "A Mind in Pain
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ybydCuMBmE-7ah5mmXKwgge8BcJC0LL7q4_kLjNxN2E/edit?usp=sharing>,"
For
Robert Burton, describing melancholy was a way of describing the world. Two
recent books on depression suggest that today, virtually all we know about
the subject is still open to debate.

Page 45, Jessica Riskin, "Nature's Evolving Tastes
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/12VcJaV3B-91r39WAgmfsZxWBBw1U73zWnasdsYZr7L8/edit?usp=sharing>,"
In
a new collection of essays on Darwin’s Descent of Man, a number of
scientists claim that human and animal cultures emerge from the
“purposeless process” of natural selection. Darwin himself said the
opposite.

We will also consider, perhaps for next week, Paul Krugman, "Joe Manchin
vs. West Virginia,
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/opinion/joe-manchin-biden-climate-child-care.html>"
from the New York Times, October 18.    Google Docs version
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hiDa68voHmexnWSjyY3QibZBn0weChAANh5qaltohKI/edit?usp=sharing>
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