Personal

Personal - i.e. problems you may face and possible responses, at the individual or small group level.

In Figures - Heart Disease

Analysing the top causes of death worldwide, one finds that 13% of all human deaths are now caused by heart attacks; in the richest countries, 16% and in the poorest, 6%.

On Systems

So are we all really being watched over by "machines of loving grace"? If you haven't seen the documentaries by Adam Curtis, full as they are of quirky and strangely compelling arguments, patterns and links between the seemingly unlinked, then sit back, ingest a huge pinch of salt, take it all in and think for yourself. ...read more

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On Fame

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A hopefully apocryphal - but probably not - anecdote has it that a first year history student at an American Ivy League university recently raised his hand and asked the professor: "If you're currently teaching us about the Second World War, that means there must have been a First World War, right?"

Now comes the suggestion that many of the younger generation have never heard of perhaps the most successful composer - in commercial terms - of all time.

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Further

13/02/2012 - On Systems
13/02/2012 - On Fame
13/02/2012 - On Empathy
10/02/2012 - On Leonard Cohen
04/02/2012 - On Ancestry
04/02/2012 - On Meaning
13/01/2012 - On Animals