Compassion

...what others love, hate, think, believe, feel and wish.

A new experiment in "biomapping" tracks the emotions of people in a community by wiring them up to Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) devices and detecting their emotional arousal. These states are then mapped onto people

The global recession has prompted some to ask whether wealthy countries can afford to continue sending money, food, medicine, building supplies, and aid workers abroad to help people in other nations.

New research on the neuroscience of compassion, love and forgiveness suggests that we have the ability to nurture and expand these virtues through practices like

...by believing that merely improving others' awareness will be sufficient to overcome the world's problems? When we are trying to be "authentic" and "green", for example, is this more about preening our own self-esteem than driven by any real sense of altruism or compassion?

...in which we try to escape from 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?

Social entrepreneurship, although of course long-established, has come of age as a stand-alone area of management and media focus in 2008.

...an age characterised by common purpose and increased compassion, as a forthcoming film featuring Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra and others suggests, or is this merely another label for the Blessed Unrest movement, or more simply still just the latest incarnation of the Age of Aquarius ideals of yesteryear?

• Connection - "Pangea Day" in May 2008 aims to strengthen tolerance and compassion by uniting millions through films that will try to cut across borders, difference, and conflict.

• Connection - "Pangea Day" in May 2008 aims to strengthen tolerance and compassion by uniting millions through films that will try to cut across borders, difference, and conflict.