Ideas to change your life The fourth revolution We live in amazing times. Digital media and the Internet have transformed how we exchange ideas, how we learn, how […] NP26 digital: Change
Happiness Metaphors of the mind Rhys Bevan-Jones works and researches in the field of psychiatry in Cardiff. He is interested in the relationship between psychology/ […] Issue #10: fame
Being Human Would you upload yourself? By Russell Blackford If our minds are essentially what happens when our brains perform certain kinds of complex computations, then […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human You are not who you think you are You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been […] NP26 digital: Change
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 The fly that rouses “An evil-doer and a curious person, searching into things under the earth and above the heaven; and making the worse […] NP21 digital: Power
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
Ideas to change your life Masters and servants We are not exactly wage slaves, but most of us have to work for a living throughout the prime decades […] Issue #04: work
Happiness In pursuit of selflessness Empathy and greed in the context of the workplace might seem too disparate to be discussed in tandem. One might […] Issue #10: fame
Ideas to change your life Dirty thoughts on civilised leisure By Damon Young “I work, God how I work… I have reduced it to a method and exalted it to […] NP20 digital: Play
Ideas to change your life Work less, live more Why do we work so much? Why do we even work at all? For a great chunk of human history […] Issue #04: work
Ideas to change your life Prosperity paradox Picture for a moment a world where technological innovation and industrial automation have finally brought us an era of unprecedented […] Issue #04: work
Ideas to change your life Making the hamster love its wheel If you ever visit Copenhagen, you’ll probably find yourself trekking out to Langelinie to the statue of The Little Mermaid, […] 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 A life worth living In 2006, scientists found a quahog clam living off the coast of Iceland that, on examination, turned out to be […] NP19 digital: Life
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 Happiness, and all that crap The question of happiness and how to get it is endlessly entertaining. It’s one of the few topics on which […] Issue #10: fame