29 January 17: What are you doing to strengthen democracy?
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In these trying times, I believe it is important for all of us to be more active in supporting democratic values. The analogy, from the late Danish physician Per Bak in How Nature Works, may be applicable. If we start dropping a grain of sand onto a flat surface, the first grains just sit there. But at some point, an additional grain will start a small avalanche. Eventually, one grain will start a major avalanche involving almost the entire sand pile. Most startling is that there is n
29 January 17: What are you doing to strengthen democracy?
29 January 17: What are you doing to…
29 January 17: What are you doing to strengthen democracy?
In these trying times, I believe it is important for all of us to be more active in supporting democratic values. The analogy, from the late Danish physician Per Bak in How Nature Works, may be applicable. If we start dropping a grain of sand onto a flat surface, the first grains just sit there. But at some point, an additional grain will start a small avalanche. Eventually, one grain will start a major avalanche involving almost the entire sand pile. Most startling is that there is n