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The Torch Magazine.
The Journal and Magazine of the
International Association of Torch Clubs
for 94 Years
A Peer-Reviewed,
Quality-Controlled
Publication
ISSN Print 0040-9440
ISSN Online 2330-9261
Fall
2019
Volume 93, Issue 1
Reflection
The Noble Eightfold Path of
Siddhārtha Gautama, the Buddha
1. Right
understanding (Samma ditthi)
2. Right
thought (Samma sankappa)
3. Right
speech (Samma vaca)
4. Right
action (Samma kammanta)
5. Right
livelihood (Samma ajiva)
6. Right
effort (Samma vayama)
7. Right
mindfulness (Samma sati)
8. Right
concentration (Samma
samadhi)
Articles for the Fall
2019 Issue
- Right
Speech: The 2019 Paxton Award
Paper
by Leland
W. Robinson
Given the coarse nature of
current political speech, the
author explores the power of the
Buddhist ideal of Right Speech:
no lying; no divisive speech, no
abusive speech and no idle
chatter. A pdf file
of this article can be found
here.
- The Carbon
Climate Crisis and Its Role in
Species Extinction
by Marshall Marcus
World-wide,
human-caused extinction
has folowed the spread of
Homo sapiens.
These extinctions have
continued up to the
present.
Human-caused global
warming, the driver of
climate change, may be
contributing to what has
been described as Earth's
sixth mass species
extinction. A pdf
file of this article can
be found here.
- Poorhouses in
America
by Judith Landes
What to
do with the poor is
explored in its historical
context. The
poorhouse illustrates that
the past did not have a
good solution to the issue
of poverty, just as
today. A pdf
file of this article can
be found here.
- Relationship
Crucibles: Why Everyone Should
Sail
by John Falconer
Sailing
is a difficult
and dangerous
undertaking,
where there has
to be carefully
defined roles.
The author
describes how
sailing has
helped defined
the roles of
husband and wife
in his marriage.A pdf file of this article can be found here.
- Seig High!
Psychostimulants and Opioids in
World Ward II
by John Elrick
The German chemical
industry invented drugs used by
the German army. One was
called Pervitin. We know
it as crystal meth.
Eukodol today is
called Oxycodone. Adolf
Hitler may have died a ruined
junkie. The German army's
greatest successes were fueled by
stimulants. While these claims
are controversial and stand out from
earlier observations concerning the
war, they hve the advantage of
explaining some of the gaps in our
understanding of the rise and fall
of the Third Reich. A pdf file of
this article can be found here.
- Is Higher
Education Too Important to Fail?
by Dan Lundquist
Lundquist
believes higher education must
change to survive, but does point
out that a great cause of the rise
in price of higher education is
administrative bloat.
Over the past thirty years, spending
on administration has ballooned
nationally, going from $13 billion
in 1981 to $122 billion in 2015
(cost of instruction is still the
largest expense and it grew as well,
but was outpaced by the rate of
growth in administrative
spending). A pdf file of
this article can be found here.
- Some Like It
Hot: The Discovery of Thermus
Aquaticas
by James Coppinger
The upper
temperature limit for organisms
was long considered 50˚C
(122˚F)—the point at which
proteins denature. Today, the
boundary is far exceeded by simple
thermophiles (50˚C–64˚C) to
hyperthermophiles, who can
live at temperatures from 80˚C
(176˚F) up to 122˚C.
Scientist Thomas Brock is
portrayed in this article as the
person who discovered this fact
after viewing distinct color
patterns in outflows from hot
springs in Yellowstone National
Park. A pdf file
of this article can be found
here.
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