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A good zoo allows the animals to behave in their natural manner, ideal for study and amusement. Tourists love it.

It's an interesting story, and good that you posted it.

The business class saw the potential in industrialization. And workers were exploited to whatever extent possible at that time, which became so bad that the consequenece was organization of labour for leverage, unions were formed. The point being is that the conditions of time and place...

An interaction of genes and environment, yet if you took a baby from Roman times and raised it in our culture, the child would not have a Roman philosophy or way of looking at the world. The same applies to different cultures in our time, take a child from a devout christian family and raise...

Of course it is. It's always fine in Santa Monica.

Faith or trust.

Sure, and when conditions for workers became incredibly bad, workers formed unions as a means to achieve better pay and conditions. Slaves had no such option. Earlier times, a series of plagues decimated the population which led to higher wages for workers due to a severe labor shortage...

I suppose there is always a rationale for failure. Nobodies fault....next event please.

He must realize that he can end up looking like a fool? So why risk it? Because he thinks the pay-off would be huge if he is right? What are the odds?

Well worth watching.

Slavery played a part. With cheap labour readily available to do the hard work, no unions, no compensation, no sick pay, holiday pay, leave loading or rostered days off, there was no great incentive to mechanize, where social and economic conditions shaped the attitudes and thoughts of the...

Not so tough now, Sunshine.

What could go wrong?

High tech, space exploration, etc, is the result of scientific research. For instance, the moon landings duing the sixties brought about many advances in technology. The moon landings, in turn, would not have been possible without scienctific research. The relationship between science and...

I meant that science has been the foundation of our advances in technology. I don't mean, stonemasonry, building boats or bridges - which we have had for millennia - but advancement in high tech, the stuff that put man on the moon and rovers on Mars....which takes more than a drawing board...