Author: Ray Petersen

Growing up as a boy, and a young man, back in the 1950’s and 60’s never seemed like a privilege

Mahatma Ghandi, the Indian peace activist, and political force for change made a lot of sense, but never more so

Or to put it another way: We just don’t know how lucky we are! Like everyone, I dream of financial

I met two Oxford University, United Kingdom based researchers, at the Natural Medical Sciences Research Centre of the University of

Have you ever felt helpless in the face of the new technologies, like I often do? Are you aghast at

I’m not an ‘inactive’ guy. I’m just getting on a wee bit, and after a lifetime infatuation with sports, I’m

There could be little worse than getting passed over for a promotion that you had your heart set on, and

As an educator, I’m always on the lookout for ways to stimulate my students towards higher level learning, and consequently,

Ray Petersen – petersen_ray@hotmail.com – Every society, for millennia, has looked upon itself as the one that is right in

Most of you, or most of us, don’t laugh enough, and take yourselves, or ourselves, way too seriously. Life challenges

That’s what Susan Sonntag wrote some years ago, and I like it! I’ve been fortunate, during these last ten years,

Charles Darwin once wrote, “It’s not the strongest of a species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one

How incredible is Mother Nature? And how incredible it is that her wonders are laid bare to us every single

There is a delicious irony, isn’t there, in the absolute fact that whether the global price of oil is going