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Featured Columnist - Meditations Martin LeFevreAutumn is at its peak and premium in northern California’s Central Valley. The yellows, oranges, and golds are resplendent in the parkland on a brilliant day, while the temperature is still mild enough for shirtsleeves.Two...

Featured Columnist - Meditations Martin LeFevreJean-Jacques Rousseau, despite or because of our cynical age, retains a powerful hold on the post-modern mind. Nowhere is that fact more apparent than with Western notions of indigenous people and their relevance for the...

TCRN STAFF: Both sides should be careful, as they both have a lot to lose. Nicaragua already has a tainted recent history in terms of conflict, and this will certainly have an impact on Costa Rica’s primary economic...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreLiving in a cultural desert, as we do in the West, and as more and more people do in this vapid global society, what is our response? Is it to just "go with the flow" as...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreWhen asked where the capacity to be creative comes from, Eric Kandel, the Nobel Laureate neuroscientist, answers very assertively: “It comes from the brain!”Statements such as this reflect a growing scientism in the Western world,...

UPDATE: Second day of National Emergency. Rains are expected to continue for 2 more days. A large flash flood completely destroyed the neighborhood Lourdes, located in Aserrí. Throughout the effected areas there are 23 dead and 10 are known...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreJane Goodall, the aging but still very active doyenne of chimpanzee studies in the Gombe Reserve, Tanzania, was interviewed recently on America’s premier TV magazine show, “60 Minutes.” Watch Video. In the most evocative moment of...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreMartin LeFevre: It’s autumn in northern California, and the weather has changed with the season. Though cloudier and cooler, we’ve had little rain as yet.The leaves are beginning to turn, but it’s still warm enough...