Philosophy and you Disembodied delinquents When Griffin had fully digested the fact that his body had disappeared for good, his mood suddenly shifted from one […] NP37: Body
Ideas to change your life Grandstander in the family When Italian handbag and luggage maker Guccio Gucci retired, handing over to his sons a fortune and the reins of […] NP27: Family (digital)
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 […] NP23 digital: Being
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 […] Previous editions
Money & Consumerism Alternative hedonism Imagine if we all wore the same clothes, lived in the same sort of house and drove the same sort […] NP19 digital: Life
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 […] NP26 digital: Change
Being Human 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 […] NP23 digital: Being
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 […] NP26 digital: Change
Being Human 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 […] Previous editions
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 […]