Halcyon News - February 2012

Of Mice and Men - redux?  Chastening and often stunning ...

Slowness as a movement is about the idea that to be fast, you first have to be slow and get things right.

The seeming acceleration of just about every facet of modern life seems to be such that...

A work written in a conversational format addressed many trust-related issues critical to our...

The Wasteland and Modernity tried to figure out whether someone who captured modern life so well could really dislike it so much.  When he stared out at a world of radio and cinema, of radical art and...

During recent months, Halcyon has listened to many original and provocative speakers, at live events, and through videos and podcasts.  Here, we recap some of the highlights:

• Humanity:...

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%.

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...

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...

Great to see my joint all-time favourite bard ...

With global population now exceeding 7 billion, National Geographic examined provided a broad overview of demographic trends that got us to today and will impact us tomorrow.

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 "If the past is replayed too fast, life seems futile, and humanity resembles water flowing from a tap, straight down the drain.  A film of history for today needs to be in slow motion, showing every person who ever lived as...