Illusions Framing fame “No one wants to pass this way unnoticed – they really don’t, even in a negative way.” Acclaimed photographer Harry […] Issue #10: fame
Illusions The price of immortality The Continental adventure was not going to plan for John Polidori. A young English doctor dreaming of literary acclaim and […] Issue #10: fame
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
Philosophy and you Who are we behind closed doors? In the midst of a nuclear war, an evacuation plane from England crash lands on a deserted, paradisiacal island in […] Issue #10: fame
Ideas to change your life Would you upload yourself? If our minds are essentially what happens when our brains perform certain kinds of complex computations, then very powerful computers […] Issue #10: fame
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
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 […] Issue #10: fame
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
Ideas to change your life On the shortness of life It is a general complaint among mankind, Paulinus, that Nature is niggardly: our allotted span is brief, and the term […] Issue #10: fame
Philosophy and you The secret of consciousness, with Daniel C. Dennett American philosopher of mind Daniel C. Dennett’s early years read like something straight out of an adventure book. The son […] Issue #10: fame
Money & Consumerism I did it their way: consuming our way to freedom “I’ll scream”, the priest muttered as he left the funeral, “if I have to listen to ‘I Did It My […] Issue #10: fame
Ideas to change your life 3 theories to take to a desert island If you had to choose just three theories to explain as much of the world as possible, which would you […] Issue #10: fame
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 […] Issue #10: fame
Illusions The Identity Toolkit Sum yourself up in a couple of words. Users of social media do it to introduce themselves online. “Surfer, father, […] Issue #10: fame
Philosophy and you Free range ‘debate’ puts the egg before the chicken By Patrick Stokes, Deakin University The announcement that Woolworths will phase out the selling of cage eggs seems like pretty […] Issue #10: fame
