Illusions Caught in the web By Antonia Case “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and […] Issue #23: being human
Philosophy and you The lost art of travel We’re in perpetual motion; we can go anywhere, at any time, and the momentum builds. Before long, we’re planning another […] Issue #08: travel
Money & Consumerism Alternative hedonism Imagine if we all wore the same clothes, lived in the same sort of house and drove the same sort […] Issue #06: progress
Philosophy and you Getting high on search A friend of mine recently sat in a waiting room in Singapore. The room was only large enough to hold […]
Philosophy and you The commercial self It’s an ancient human law and it makes us do extraordinary things. Author Tom Wolfe calls it serial immortality; it’s […]
Ideas to change your life Losing ourselves to technology Millie’s vision became blurred and then she lost consciousness. Stressed and overworked, she took two weeks off, booked herself into […]
Happiness Invest in your masterpiece – yourself Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance […]
Ideas to change your life Factory Earth The family is worried. Suggestions are passed between siblings, and aunts and uncles are eager to set things right. What […] Issue #04: work
Ideas to change your life Working against the clock The office man runs his ‘security pass’ through the turnstiles of the corporate building and clocks on for the day; […] Issue #04: work
Happiness Are you your job and nothing more? What do you do? I’m a mechanic; I’m a horticulturalist. It’s the first question we ask others, and the way […] Issue #04: work
Happiness The lost art of happiness Sitting around the kitchen stove with his family, a man from Ladakh, better known as “Little Tibet” describes the tourists […]
Ideas to change your life The Media Effect Sociologists have long known that most of us are pretty nice. We work well in groups and take care of […] Issue #10: fame
Happiness Money or happiness? I know a rich man who buys properties. He decorates them, fills them with consumer goods and then leaves them […]
Illusions Superhero of the mind To see a person taking in the wonders of the sky is a rare sight when all but a few […]
Literature & Writing The project of being alive It’s not the first time that a movie has been shown to a vegetative audience but for some reason the […]
