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 […]
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 Work less, live more Why do we work so much? Why do we even work at all? For a great chunk of human history […]
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 […]
Happiness Happiness is hard to find I have been happy. I hope to be happy again. But I am yet to feel something I’d call “happiness”. […]
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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 […]
Life 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 […]
Ancient Futures Ancient Futures is a remarkable look at the root causes of our environmental and social crises, and a powerful challenge […]
The Stanford prison experiment The infamous Stanford prison experiment was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo […]
Koyaanisqatsi in 5 minutes ko.yaa.nis.katsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life disintegrating. 4. life out of […]
Illusions You are your life, and nothing else Existentialist philosophers teach us that we alone are responsible for creating a meaningful life in an absurd and unfair world. […]
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 […]
Literature & Writing The Cartoon Philosopher: 13 questions with Michael Leunig 1. What is the biggest threat to our minds? Our minds. 2. What is freedom? Non-compliance and creativity. 3. What […]
Illusions The identity toolkit Sum yourself up in a couple of words. Users of social media do it to introduce themselves online. “Surfer, father, […]
Happiness Achieving good work If I were to ask people around the world what they admire, I am confident that high on the list […]
Ideas to change your life How are you smart? The original scene: Paris, 1900‚ La Belle Epoque. The city fathers approached a talented psychologist named Alfred Binet with an […]
