Has it bugged anybody that we (the US) have paid more attention and donated more money to what seems like only a handful of people lost/displaced by hurricane Katrina as opposed to the hundreds of thousands killed and millions displaced by the Tsunami that swept through the Indian and Pacific Oceans? Isn't it interesting how it's front page news when we lose a couple of troops from a bombing in Iraq and how, 6 pages in, we read about the 200+ Iraqi residents that died in the same bombing?

I have been contemplating the reasoning for our reasoning for quite a while, and finally came upon an article about the Monkey Sphere. It's a great read and, even if you are not quite into the whole evolution thing, just read it for its thoughts on social design, which I think are quite interesting.