Craig K. Comstock
Author, Artist and Social Commentator
INTERNET ARTICLES
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The following articles by Craig K. Comstock were published first by Huffington Post (or in a few cases, by Alternet or by OpEdNews), and are arranged below, in reverse chronological order, in each of the following categories:
• climate change
• domestic politics
• ecology & energy
• foreign affairs
• mindful molecules
• reviews of literature, media & visual art
• unsung heroes
• other
a total of 83 articles,of which book reviews (24),other forms (59)
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Some of these articles have subsequently appeared on Alternet, Amazon, Caixan (Chinese), Common Dreams, Countercurrents, Energy Bulletin (which became Resilience), History News Network, MAPS, National Public Radio, Op Ed News, Speaking Truth to Power, Times of India, Treehugger, and the Wall Street Journal website, plus the sites of Academia, the Buddhist Channel, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Hoffman Institute, the Mankind Project, and others organizations.
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CLIMATE CHANGE (12)
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#79 “What Overshadows the American Century?” (with reference to Joseph S. Nye, Jr.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/what-overshadows-the-amer_b_7700370.html
#71 “Living Dangerously” (the Showtime TV series on climate change)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/living-dangerously_b_5137088.html
#69 “A Gift from the Collapseniks” (with a list of books and websites)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/a-gift-from-the-collapsen_b_4887335.html
#67 “Transform While There’s Still Time” (a review of Collapsing Consciously by Carolyn Baker)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/carolyn-baker-review_b_4331070.html
#63 “Responding to Killer Gas”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/responding-to-killer-gas_b_3858024.html
#59 “Chilling Out Globally” (on geo-engineering; in part a review of Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/chilling-out-globally_b_2995260.html
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-04-03/chilling-out-globally
#57 “Who’s Got the Social Inventions?” (on the need, with regard to global warming, to go beyond ordinary politics)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/whos-got-social-inventions_b_2785777.html
#53 “The Dirty Secret of Climate Change” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/alternative-energy-climate_b_2318712.html
on page called “green”
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-01-02/the-dirty-secret-of-climate-change
#50 “A Suit for the Emperor” (on a lecture by Professor Kevin Anderson on climate change)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/a-suit-for-the-emperor_b_2189679.html
on page called “green”
http:// www.resilience.org/stories/2012-11-27/a-suit-for-the-emperor
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#35 “Models for a Movement” (about the differences between past issues and global warming)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/models-for-a-movement_b_917469.html
on the page called “green”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-08-04/models-movement
#06 Geoengineering (a review of Eli Kintisch, Hack the Planet)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/hack-the-planet_b_586552.html
on the page called “media/books”
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3QH1LVMG6SF0W
#05 The Global Crisis (a review of Bill McKibben, Eaarth)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/inconvenient-you-aint-see_b_561996.html
on the page called “media/books”
http://www.countercurrents.org/comstock070510.htm
http://www.energybulletin.net/52705
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DOMESTIC POLITICS (12)
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#78 “It’s Not Terrorism, It’s Racism”
#76 “Collective Action Makes the ‘Impossible’ Possible”
#74 “Escaping the Perils of Group-think”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/escaping-the-perils-of-gr_b_5994124.html
#55 “Is MLK [Martin Luther King, Jr. of Use to Us Now?”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/is-mlk-of-use-to-us-now_b_2517587.html
on page called ”Politics”
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-01-22/is-mlk-of-use-to-us-now
#47 “Salami Slicing a Way to Compliance”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/salamislicing-a-way-to-co_b_1841475.html
on the page called “Crime”
#46 “Government Interest in LIBOR Scandal” (banking)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/government-interest-libor-scandal_b_1677237.html
on the page called “Politics”
​#34 “In God We Trust; All Others, Bring Data!” (about misleading or absent statistics about levels of fighters abroad, money supply, unemployment, and oil reserves)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/in-god-we-trust-all-other_1_b_894910.html
on the page called “politics”
#27 “After the American Dream” (on inequality, with reference to a paper by Norton & Ariely)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/after-the-american-dream_b_841699.html
on the page called ‘business”
www.countercurrents.org/comstock290311.htm
www.energybulletin.net/node/56706
#15 “What Kind of Jobs?” (on the “local jobs agenda” of a candidate for county commissioner)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/what-kind-of-jobs_b_714902.html
on the page called “politics”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-09-14/what-kind-jobs
#13 “Make Me Do It” (a dialogue on the “transformational leader”)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/make-me-do-it_b_694823.html
on the page called “politics”
#03 Transpartisanship (on ideas advanced by Joseph McCormick)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/citizen-diplomacy-where-p_b_535093.html
on the page called “politics”
#02 “Citizen Diplomacy Where?” (answer: at home)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/citizen-diplomacy-where-p_b_534058.html
on the page called “world”
​ECOLOGY & ENERGY(9)
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#43 “A Way of Talking about Energy” (a review of Before the Lights Go Out)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/climate-change_b_1404423.html
#42 “Lack of System Thinking” (critique of a New York Times article on “energy independence”)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/lack-of-systems-thinking_b_1376227.html
on the page called “green”
#37 “Reinventing Fire: A Vision for Our Energy Future” (a review of the book by Amory Lovins and the Rocky Mountain Institute)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/reinventing-fire-review_b_1034216.html
on the page called “green”
#36 “The Quest for Connection” (a review of Daniel Yergin, The Quest:: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-quest-for-connection_b_999020.html
on the page called :”green”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-10-11/quest-connection
#29 “Where Elites Fail” (a report on Richard Heinberg’s commencement talk at Worcester Poly)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/exonn-richard-heinberg_b_864534.html
on the page called “college”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-05-23/where-elites-fail
#18 “Green Coal” (on James Fallows’ Atlantic article, “The Future of Clean Energy is Dirty Coal”)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/green-coal_b_786661.html
on the page called “green”
www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-11-24/green-coal
#16 “When the Market Fails” (with reference to Robert L. Hirsch, The Impending World Energy Mess)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/when-the-market-fails_b_750273.html
on the page called “green”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-10-05/when-market-fails
#08 “The Other Half of the Geyser” (methane)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-other-half-of-the-gey_b_610588.html
on the page called “green”
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/53106
#07 the U.S. campaign to use 10 percent less gas
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/what-we-can-do-now-about_b_603245.html
on the page called “green”
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/53033
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​FOREIGN AFFAIRS (10)
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#81 “Cuban Missile Crisis in Reverse?” (Russia & Ukraine)
#80 “On the Ground in Russia” (quoting Sharon Tennison’s report)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/on-the-ground-in-russia_b_7875948.html
#73 War Propaganda (TIME on Putin)
unpublished
#62 “What We Can Learn from the End of the Cold War”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/what-we-can-learn-from-th_4_b_3797758.html
#45 “Hands That Are Invisible”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/hands-that-are-invisible_b_1662772.html
on the page called “Business”
www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-07-13/hands-are-invisible
#31 “How Change Happened” (a review of Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/how-change-happened_b_874575.html
#30 “Tough” (a review of Frederick Kempe, Berlin, 1961)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/tough_b_867271.html
on the page called “world”
onespot.wsj.com/politics/2011/05/26/.../craig-k-comstock-tough
#23 "Hunger for Change" (on the relation between revolt and the fraction of average household consumption spent on food)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/hunger-for-change_b_816624.html
http://www.countercurrents.org/comstock030211.htm
#10 “Causing What It’s Meant to Prevent” (on space-based weapons)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/causing-what-its-meant-to_b_628619.html
on the page called “world”
#09 “A Nuclear Secret” (on a conversation in Moscow about the Cuban Missile Crisis)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/a-nuclear-secret_b_618768.html
on the page called “world”
MINDFUL MOLECULES (9)
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#70 “Investing in Psychoactives” (on a documentary directed by Hockenhull)
#68 “Mindful Molecules” (a review of Manifesting Mind, edited by Rick Doblin and Brad Burge)
#58 “Psychedelics for What?” (limits of the medical model; review of Thomas Roberts)
www.alternet.org/books/psychedelic-future-mind
#51” Just Say No to Drug War?” (on the Beckley Foundation and Sundog Pictures)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/just-say-no-to-drug-war_b_2232992.html
on page called “World”
http://www.alternet.org/incumbent
#49 “Research Points to Clear Benefits of MDMA for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”
http://www.maps.com (MAPS in the Media, 11/21/12)
#39 “Guided Psychedelic Sessions” (a review of Jim Fadiman, The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/guided-psychedelic-sessio_b_1245413.html
on the page called “books”
#12 “80% of Post-Traumatic Stress Sufferers Lost Symptoms After Taking Ecstasy—Study’s Results...”
(a report on scientific research; for follow-up study see #49)
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/147624/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/psychedelic-medicine-usin_b_651280.html
on the page called “living”
#04 The 2010 Conference of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/psychedelic-science_b_547070.html
on the page called “living”
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/146629/can_psychedelic_drugs_treat_ptsd
http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=2313&fmt=page
#01 “Questions Coming Back to Life” (a review of books about the Sixties)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/questions-coming-back-to_b_487999.html
on the page called “media/books”
http://www.maps.org/media/view/questions_coming_back_to_life
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Reviews of Art, Literature & Media (6)
#71 “Living Dangerously” (the Showtime TV series on climate change)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/living-dangerously_b_5137088.html
primarily listed under “climate change”
#64 “The Liberal Media” (on the role played by professional comedians)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-liberal-media_b_4166919.html
#61 “The Whoosh of Flamethrowers” (a review of Rachel Kushner’s novel)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-whoosh-of-flamethrowe_b_3460624.html
#33 “A Life Told in Paint” (the Charlotte Salomon exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/charlotte-salomon-sanfran_b_886594.html
on the page called “style/arts”
#25 "The Art of Making Science Dance" (a portfolio of photos, on the relationship between art and science)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/when-science-dances_b_824890.html
on the page called “style/arts”
#20 "Eat on the Street" (a review of Dave Thomas, Thai Street Food)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/eat-on-the-street_b_792072.html
on the page called “food”
​UNSUNG HEROES(13)
founders, friends, mentors, teachers
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#75 “Taking PTSD Serious (on the work of Michael Mithoefer and others)ly”
#72 A Different Kind of Hot (Stuart Sovatsky and the brahmacharya path to spiritual intimacy)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/a-different-kind-of-hot_b_5394195.html
#54 “Monro’s Damage Control” (review of biography subtitled Uncommon Educator, about John U. Monro)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/john-u-monro_b_2372572.html
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#48 “When the People Lead, the Leaders Will Follow” (Sharon Tennison and citizen diplomacy, in form of a review of The Power of Impossible Ideas)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/when-the-people-lead-lead_b_1968762.html
#44 “Space Wealth” (William Crandall and asteroid mining)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/asteroid-mining_b_1447504.html
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​#41 “The Making of a Teacher” (a review of Keith Martin-Smith’s biography of Zen Master JunPo Denis Kelly Roshi)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-making-of-a-teacher_b_1271985.html
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#38 “A Feminist Treasure” (on Julienna Travers’ unpublished book, “The Serpent & the Storm God”)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/a-feminist-treasure_b_1171318.html
#28 “Welcoming Warriors Home: The Film” (directed by Kim Shelton, produced by Bill McMillan, a film of a community ritual
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/welcoming-warriors-home-t_b_847858.html
#26 “World on the Edge” (a review of Lester R. Brown’s book with this title)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/world-on-the-edge_b_831113.html
on the page called “media/books”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-03-07/world-edge
http://topics.treehugger.com/article/09XXe4kfPc7em
#24 "Inner Greening" (a review of Carolyn Baker, Navigating the Coming Chaos)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/inner-greening_b_820504.html
on the page called “living”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-02-17/inner-greening
#22 "Remembering a Buddhist Psychotherapy Pioneer" (on Ron Kurtz, founder of Hakomi therapy)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/a-buddhist-therapy_b_810779.html
on the page called “religion”
http://www.vivalanka.com/news/page.jsp?articleid=150486
#19 “The Transition Town Movement’s Initial Genius” (on Rob Hopkins’ idea)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-transition-town-movem_b_788693.html
www.countercurrents.org/comstock301110.htm
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-11-29/transition-town-movements-initial-genius
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/11/29-7
#14 “Out of Almost Everywhere?” (a review of anti-empire writers associated with Tom Engelhardt and his website, TomDispatch)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/out-of-almost-everywhere_b_706785.html
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OTHERS (7)
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#83 “The Power of Compassion” (JFK, Trudeau, Gift of Darkness, Arendt, Krsnaric)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-power-of-compassion_b_8793712.html
#65 “The Miracle of Seeds” (reporting the plight of a permaculture institute threatened by herbicide spraying)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-miracle-of-seeds_b_4214955.html
#40 “Strong Sustainability” (largely on scenario planning done in New Zealand)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/new-zealand-sustainability_b_1258516.html
on the page called “green”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-02-10/strong-sustainability
#32 “The Nutritional Cost of Birth Control Pills” (based on TV interview with nutritionist Ross Pelton)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-pill-and-what-else_b_877875.html
on the page called “healthy living” (see author’s comments)
#21 "Will Our Species Survive Another Century?"
(a thought-experiment)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/human-extinction_b_802510.html
on the page called “living”
#11 “Are We Happy Yet?”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/are-we-happy-yet_b_648178.html
on the page called “living”
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/53480
​BOOK REVIEWS (23)
(drawn from the other categories)
#82 “Keeping Busy?” (on Coming Into Your Own, a book about life transitions, by Barbara Cecil)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/keeping-busy_1_b_8204068.html
#72 A Different Kind of Hot (Stuart Sovatsky and the brahmacharya path to spiritual intimacy)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/a-different-kind-of-hot_b_5394195.html
#68 “Mindful Molecules” (a review of Manifesting Mind, edited by Rick Doblin and Brad Burge)
#67 “Transform While There’s Still Time” (a review of Collapsing Consciously by Carolyn Baker)
http://www.carolynbaker.net/2013/12/02/transform-while-theres-still-time-by-craig-comstock/
#61 “The Whoosh of Flamethrowers” (a review of Rachel Kushner’s novel)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-whoosh-of-flamethrowe_b_3460624.html
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#59 “Chilling Out Globally” (on geo-engineering; in part a review of Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/chilling-out-globally_b_2995260.html
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-04-03/chilling-out-globally
#58 “Psychedelics for What?” (limits of the medical model; a review of Thomas Roberts)
www.alternet.org/books/psychedelic-future-mind
#54 “Monro’s Damage Control” (a review of biography subtitled Uncommon Educator, about John U. Monro)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/john-u-monro_b_2372572.html
pn page called “Books”
#48 “When the People Lead, the Leaders Will Follow” (Sharon Tennison and citizen diplomacy, in the form of a review of The Power of Impossible Ideas)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/when-the-people-lead-lead_b_1968762.html
on the page called “Books”
#43 “A Way of Talking about Energy” (a review of Before the Lights Go Out)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/climate-change_b_1404423.html
on the page called “green”
#39 “Guided Psychedelic Sessions” (a review of Jim Fadiman, The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/guided-psychedelic-sessio_b_1245413.html
on the page called “books”
#38 “A Feminist Treasure” (on Julienna Travers’ unpublished book, “the serpent & the storm god”)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/a-feminist-treasure_b_1171318.html
on the page called “women”
#37 “Reinventing Fire: A Vision for Our Energy Future”(a review of the book by Amory Lovins and the Rocky Mountain Institute)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/reinventing-fire-review_b_1034216.html
on the page called “green”
#36 “The Quest for Connection” (a review of Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/the-quest-for-connection_b_999020.html
on the page called :”green”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-10-11/quest-connection
#31 “How Change Happened” (a review of Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/how-change-happened_b_874575.html
on the page called “media/books”
#30 “Tough” (a review of Frederick Kempe, Berlin, 1961)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/tough_b_867271.html
on the page called “world”
onespot.wsj.com/politics/2011/05/26/.../craig-k-comstock-tough
#26 “World on the Edge” (a review of Lester R. Brown’s book with this title)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/world-on-the-edge_b_831113.html
on the page called “media/books”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-03-07/world-edge
http://topics.treehugger.com/article/09XXe4kfPc7em
#17 “A Buddhist Vision of Life Beyond Consumerism” (with reference to Stephen Batchelor)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/other-than-consumerism_b_772646.html
on the page called “religion”
www.countercurrents.org/comstock271010.htm
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-10-26/buddhist-vision-life-beyond-consumerism
#16 “When the Market Fails” (with reference to Robert L. Hirsch, The Impending World Energy Mess)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/when-the-market-fails_b_750273.html
on the page called “green”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-10-05/when-market-fails
#06 geoengineering (a review of Eli Kintisch, Hack the Planet) (see also #59)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/hack-the-planet_b_586552.html
on the page called “media/books”
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3QH1LVMG6SF0W
#05 the global crisis (a review of Bill McKibben, Eaarth) (see also category called “climate change”)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/inconvenient-you-aint-see_b_561996.html
on the page called “media/books”
http://www.countercurrents.org/comstock070510.htm
http://www.energybulletin.net/52705
#01 “Questions Coming Back to Life” (a review of books about the Sixties) (see also category called “mindful molecules”)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-comstock/questions-coming-back-to_b_487999.html
on the page called “media/books”
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