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Now or Never
We modern folk don’t like to be confronted with our mortality. Death has been rather hygienically excised from our lives, at least on Read More...
Giving Peace a Chance
From the Middle East to Moscow, ordinary citizens are organizing for democratic change. [caption id="attachment_293797" align="alignleft" width="563"] Thousands of Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo on December 31, 2011, celebrating the revolution that ended the reign of Hosni Mubarak. Read More...
Getting the Ball Rolling for the Homeless
Jessica Royer Ocken | September/October 2012 Issue The Homeless World Cup began, as so many good ideas do, over a beer. In 2001, Mel Young was in Cape Town at the annual conference for the International Network of Street Papers, an organization he founded. Young and his Read More...
Walking the Path of Knowledge
An Indian economics professor seeks innovations where few expect to find them: among small farmers in remote regions of India. [caption id="attachment_289296" align="alignleft" width="410"] Indian economics professor Anil Gupta gathers local knowledge and spreads it to neighboring towns and Read More...
Cheese “Made Us Who We Are”
Paul Kindstedt, Professor of Food Science at the University of Vermont in Burlington, discovered that the role of cheese makers and their cheeses has been undervalued in history. He recently wrote about his findings in Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and its Place in Western Read More...
Tapping Into Health
By gently accessing the body’s meridian system, “emotional freedom techniques” can help resolve stress, anxiety and phobias. Marieke Verhoeven | September/October Issue Is there anything bothering you that we can work on during the session?” emotional freedom technique (EFT) practitioner Read More...
Working on the Future
Wait for politicians to solve the economic crisis? No thanks. Some Greeks are doing it for themselves. Maarten van der Schaaf | September/October 2012 Issue In a crumbling covered market in Athens’ Kypseli neighborhood, Mitsi Vrassivanopoulou mans a buffet table filled with Greek Read More...
Great! What’s Next?
Being an intelligent optimist is a discipline that invites us to live in possibility, says Ben Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and co-author of The Art of Possibility. Jurriaan Kamp | September/October 2012 Issue In 2002, Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Read More...
Tree of Life
This bonsai tree is striking as well as smart: it uses solar energy to recharge your phone. The Electree’s 27 photovoltaic panels can load a battery inside the pot in 36 hours. The user plugs in a phone or other device using a USB cable. The 15-inch tree is sold partly assembled, so the user can Read More...
Don’t Worry, Be Healthy
The adage, “Don’t worry, be happy,” suddenly has a lot more weight behind it, thanks to the latest medical research. In the first-ever systematic review of happiness and heart health, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston have found that a positive outlook on life can Read More...