The European Court of Human Rights shows how justice can cross borders. Is it a model for the whole planet?
Jay Walljasper | April 2006 issue
The plight of 5-year-old Tabitha Kaniki Mitunga sparked international controversy in 2002 when Belgian officials detained her alone at an immigration centre Read More...
Editors | Jan/Feb 2009 issue
Integrative medicine begins with the basics: what you eat, what you do and how you think. Here are three tips for staying healthy from Victoria Maizes, executive director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine.
Eat a healthy diet. “The Mediterranean Read More...
Awarded writer Ben Okri's blueprint of the university of the future.Ben Okri | June 2003 issue
In the future, centres of learning will teach at least one thing we do not teach today: the art of self-discovery. There is nothing more fundamental in education. We turn out students from our Read More...
A simple practice in meditation. | June 2003 issue
In the following meditation, the emphasis is on breathing, but the underlying aim is to achieve a calm, non-judgemental awareness whereby your thoughts, feelings and sensations come and go without getting caught up in them. Sit in a relaxed Read More...
Each year Ode honors the top organic companies and products that are helping to make the world a cleaner, more sustainable and healthier place. Our November cover story ("Everyday toxins") looked at the thousands of chemicals that enter our bodies every day as a result of our food, cosmetics, Read More...
Steve Birkbeck develops sandalwood cosmetics with the help of Australia's original people
Ode Editors | March 2006 issue
Steve Birkbeck was a college student majoring in philosophy and anthropology when a car accident in a borrowed vehicle forced him into a job tending bar at a desolate hotel on Read More...
Anne Cushman recounts her adventure seeking romance online through the Buddhist singles Web sites
Anne Cushman | September 2006 issue
The idea comes up as a joke. I’m a journalist and a newly single Buddhist mom. Why don’t I investigate the new online “dharma dating” sites, and write about Read More...
Not something to die forTijn Touber | September 2005 issue
Recently, Ervin Laszlo, the Hungarian systems philosopher, said The British Library’s collection included the unpublished spiritual works of Isaac Newton. According to Laszlo, Newton didn’t dare go public with this material following Read More...
Noam Chomsky, America's leading dissident, believes great leaders don't change the world. People like you do.John Malkin | September 2005 issue
Noam Chomsky, a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is sometimes referred to as America’s leading dissident for his passionate and Read More...