Society & Culture
Not eating things
There’s never been a better time in history to be the kind of person who enjoys not eating things. In my corner of New…
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Environment
Changing the Earth’s atmosphere
Tim Dean: Most people are probably familiar with just one atmosphere: our own. How does Earth’s atmosphere compare to the other planets that we…
Illusions
The invisible gorilla
Zan Boag: Interestingly, my daughter has been studying your gorilla experiment at college over the last month. I’ve showed it to several people as…
Being Human
The age of noise
“The twentieth century is, among other things, the Age of Noise. Physical noise, mental noise, and noise of desire – we hold history’s record…
Environment
6 thinkers
What does climate change mean to humans? Here are six thinkers’ views on the climate. The Physicist Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018 “One can…
Ideas to change your life
5 Ideas: Is there a solid core that makes you you?
Ideas are powerful things. Even a little one can change the way you look at the world. And the big ones can change the…
Being Human
The asymmetry of loss
While on holiday in Vienna in 1833, the English poet Arthur Henry Hallam died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage, aged just twenty-two. Over the…
Interviews
Alienated from the pleasures of work
Zan Boag: As a group you have been meeting to discuss ‘work’ over the past two years, under the title ‘Labor, philosophy, and change’.…
Being Human
Caught in the web
By Antonia Case “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity,…
Environment
13 views on climate change
#1, 2009: Statement on Climate Change from 18 Scientific Associations “Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous…
coronavirus
Unexpected change
Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher, left us to interpret and apply his often-cryptic aphorisms. One of the fragments that survives from his writing declares, “All…
Being Human
Power scripts
There were scripts I learned very early while growing up in an African-American community in the urban South. In the 1960s and ‘70s, civil…