Miscellaneous
Jesus meets the free market
A Brazilian theologian's Christian response to globalization Marco Visscher | November 2005 Read More...
The world according to ubuntu
'I am because you are.' This widespread African teaching reminds us that you cannot be human alone. Tijn Touber | September 2004 issue The African equivalent to Rene Descartes’s famous dictum, “I think, therefore I am,” which is the foundation of much modern Western culture, is called ubuntu Read More...
Nature's way to lose weight
Minding your body's own signals is the simplest way to stop overeating Tijn Touber | October 2005 Read More...
Making waves
The visual poetry of the surf. Steve Hawk | December 2005 Read More...
An extraordinary act of compassion
In prison for attempted murder, my life suddenly changed when I received a letter from the policeman I had tried to kill. | September 2004 Read More...
Magnetism and the quantum field
Tijn Touber | March 2005 issue Recent breakthroughs in quantum physics offer explanations for electromagnetism’s ability to order and create. Inside the nucleus of an atom there is mainly empty space. The distance from the nucleus of an atom to the electrons surrounding it is proportionate to Read More...
Money should work for us, not the other way around
What is money? Do we need more of it to solve some of the world's problems? Or is money the cause of them? Ex-banker Bernard Lietaer thinks the latter is the case. And he has the solution: a new kind of money. Jurriaan Kamp | September 2005 issue You have no idea what money is. Bernard Lietaer Read More...
Using homeopathy to treat cancer
Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue In the mid 1980s, A. U. Ramakrishnan, a homeopath based in Madras, India, started seeing more cancer patients filling his waiting room. That only made him more determined to find homeopathic treatments for the disease, which had claimed the lives of his two older Read More...
Our place in the world
Most of us take public spaces for granted until they disappear and we have no place to go. A new movement is now emerging to reinvigorate public life. To make contact with others, to create quite moments, to celebrate the joy of living in the city. An ode to streets, parks, squares, caf Jay Read More...
Mapping the course of economic globalization
The Philips factory, which was the pride of the Belgian city of Hasselt, closed its doors in 2002 and the jobs were "outsourced" to Eastern Europe, Taiwan and China. This story is emblematic of what's happening today as the economic centre of gravity shifts to Asia. Ode traces Philips' footsteps to Read More...