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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Death Dying for your beliefs Not all arguments are created equal. Many aren’t even arguments at all. Even utterances that appear to be advancing a […]
Being Human Do you really know yourself? “Know thyself,” said the philosophers. No problem, said the rest of us. Self-help, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, inner self, outer self – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Society & Culture Rush hour Interview with Adam Magyar What prompted you to do the “stainless” series, as well as your earlier work “squares” and […]
Literature & Writing Alienated from the pleasures of work Zan Boag interviewed Abhijeet Paul, coordinator of the ‘Labor, Philosophy, And Change’ working group at the University Of California, Berkeley. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Happiness Pleasure spots By George Orwell Some months ago I cut out of a shiny magazine some paragraphs written by a female journalist […]
Society & Culture The value of boycott In July 1846, the American writer Henry David Thoreau went to prison for refusing to pay his poll tax. He […]
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 […]
Ideas to change your life The ladder of true understanding How well do you understand the world? Do you think you’ve got a good grasp of reality or not? Greek […]
