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A man with balls
On skates he won four Olympic gold medals and broke 11 world records. Now, using sports and games, he's dedicating himself to helping ensure children in poor areas have safe and healthy futures. Ode speaks with Johann Olav Koss.Marco Visscher | April 2006 issue In the run-up to the 1994 Lillehammer Read More...
On the right foot
The newly popular idea of Global Footprintlets us measure the ecological impact of how we liveMarco Visscher | June 2004 issue “It is the best way to calculate our performance on sustainability,” declares Carwyn Jones, Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside for Wales, explaining Read More...
Open borders need open arms
People's natural mistrust of strangers plays a big role in the immigration debate. Let's acknowledge that and then seek better ways to accept foreigners. Ode Editors | April 2007 issue Answering an appeal for open borders - such as the one made by Philippe Legrain in this issue of Ode (see Let them Read More...
Ruth Camargo: Finding beauty in service
Jaime Jaramillo, who works with street children in Colombia, says Ruth Camargo is one former street child who is inspiring others in her community. Jaime Jaramillo | Jan/Feb 2009 issue Ruth Camargo, Bogotá, Columbia Photo: Firstline Schools, Inc. When I met Ruth Camargo, she was living in the Read More...
The wow of physics
Visionary Fritjof Capra teams up with Leonardo da Vinci to explore the cutting edge of 21st-century science. Jay Walljasper| November 2007 issue You can think of inventor Leonardo da Vinci and physicist Fritjof Capra as colleagues, collab-orating on groundbreaking scientific work that shifts Read More...
The controversial cure
Is homeopathy a healing idea whose time has come--again?Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Valerie Ohanian was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in the late 1970s when severe fatigue descended out of nowhere. Suddenly, she couldn’t stay up for more than 15 minutes at a time Read More...
The Columbus effect
Film about modern physics shows how humans create their reality Jurriaan Kamp | November 2004 Read More...
Reading, writing and revelation
How the written word helps refresh body, mind and soul. Ursula Sautter | October 2010 issue [caption id="attachment_2448" align="alignleft" width="180"] Photo: istockphoto.com/xaviarnau[/caption] Whenever the stabbing pain in her knee becomes unbearable, 17-year-old Mackenzie Bearup picks up a book Read More...
Words that heal
The psychological upside of writing it all down. David Servan-Schreiber| October 2010 issue Has your physician ever asked you to write about the worst day of your life? Probably not. Yet the Journal of the American Medical Association recently published a clinical study showing that writing can Read More...
It's payback time
To avoid credit card debt, always combine the pleasure of purchasing with the pain of paying. Adam Smith | October 2010 Read More...