A major study examined how people are using the Internet now and how they want to use it in the future.
The Future of Internet Experiences
The Anatomy of a Vegan infographic from AdvancedPhysicalMedicine.org takes an in depth look at some of the demographic data they gathered in a survey of Vegans.
Researched and produced by Advanced Physical Medicine - Chicago Chiropractic.
Pace David Bowie, and in the light of the hagiography building in some quarters around the late Steve Jobs, one wonders who are the real enduring, beyond "just for one day" heroes, ancient and modern?
A good candidate from my childhood is Alexander the Great, from the moment I first shed a tear when reading in a Ladybird history book (a constant companion, and part of a set which I preserve with fondness and gratitude to this day) about Alexander dying (at just 33, thereby giving him a special bond with Jesus in my young mind) "far from his homeland". As a long-standing, albeit non-heroic exile from my own homeland, this still resonates...
Guidance on horizon scanning and futurism.
Halcyon Highlights is a bi-weekly round-up of some of the most compelling trends that we have spotted over the past fortnight. + , - or = indicate whether we consider each trend/development to prove mainly positive, negative or neutral/too early to judge...
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths - Joseph Campbell
Coming across this quote reminds me that Campbell's four Masks of God volumes sit tantalisingly on my shelves, from where they've tempted and taunted me - occasionally dipped into but never fully absorbed - for nigh on 20 years. I wonder whether old Joe ever found a myth about procrastination?
Maybe Proust should wait a while, after all...
The estimated value of the market for wildlife tracking is at least €10bn, making it one of the largest illegal trades in the world.
Many people would probably claim to be outraged by this, but where does one draw the line? If you are against wildlife hunting, should you also be against animal experimentation, or eating meat?
A small but growing minority of people is choosing to become vegetarian or vegan.
There are a growing number of animal sanctuaries, from the very well-known, through to much more recently established bodies.
Some organisations also campaign against not just against meat, but also against all human uses of animal products.
Would we curb our wasteful activities if only we knew more about what happened to our waste? Researchers from MIT think so, and in order to equip the public with the knowledge we need to change our behaviour, they've tagged our trash with GPS chips and tracked it across the globe.
A composite presentation, compiled from various sources, sketched a view of the far future of our world and of the solar system.