Halcyon News - February 2012

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Halcyon News - February 2012

Please see below our latest Halcyon news. Enjoy the read and feel free to leave comments below or contact us if you have any questions or any related stories to share.

23/03/2012 - 11:23 | Halcyon In Kaleidoscope | Go to full article

Can we escape the prison of our own feelings and desires and embrace the lives of others, discovering ourselves by learning about other people, and finding out how they live, think and look at the world? 

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28/02/2012 - 16:01 | Halcyon In Kaleidoscope | Go to full article
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Of Mice and Men - redux?  Chastening and often stunning ...

27/02/2012 - 16:50 | Halcyon In Kaleidoscope | Go to full article
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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...

27/02/2012 - 13:11 | Halcyon In Kaleidoscope | Go to full article
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A work written in a conversational format addressed many trust-related issues critical to our...

26/02/2012 - 13:15 | Halcyon In Kaleidoscope | Go to full article

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...

25/02/2012 - 17:52 | Halcyon Inspired | Go to full article

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:...
14/02/2012 - 14:01 | Halcyon In Figures | Go to full article

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%.

13/02/2012 - 18:39 | Halcyon In Kaleidoscope | Go to full article

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...

13/02/2012 - 13:34 | Halcyon In Kaleidoscope | Go to full article
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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...

10/02/2012 - 21:05 | Halcyon In Kaleidoscope | Go to full article
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Great to see my joint all-time favourite bard ...

07/02/2012 - 11:05 | Halcyon In Figures | Go to full article

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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04/02/2012 - 17:08 | Halcyon In Kaleidoscope | Go to full article
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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...

04/02/2012 - 13:02 | Halcyon In Kaleidoscope | Go to full article
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"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to...