Halcyon Imagines

Please see below selected recent love-related change.

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• What's New? - Love
• On Love
• What's Changing? - Childhood
• What's Changing? - Compassion
• What's Changing? - Emotions
• What's Changing? - Empathy
• What's Changing? - Family

November 2024

Please see below selected recent civility-related change.

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• What's New? - Civility

May 2024

• In Citizens, Jon Alexander argued that the "Consumer Story" has been in place for less than a century. Before this, we lived inside the "Subject Story" - as in “subjects of the king” - which lasted centuries, casting the majority of us as infant-like and dependent, with just a superior few capable of deciding and leading. And now? Now the Consumer Story is failing. The Subject Story is resurgent. But at the same time, a new story - the "Citizen Story" - is taking shape across the world, and in every aspect of society. In the Citizen Story, we see ourselves as the creative, capable, caring creatures we are.

Please see below selected recent society-related change.

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• What's New? - Society

December 2020

Halcyon curates the most significant psychology-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with psychology-related challenges.

A leading web curator noted that children’s books, especially classic ones with timeless wisdom for grown-ups, can be combined with minimalist posters that show complex stories or ideas in clean graphics.

A series of such hyper-minimalist takes on beloved children’s classics was created by designer Christian Jackson.

If the world were a village of 100 people, what would it look like?  Various answers have circulated around the internet for years, but a set of 20 posters provides a visual perspective on this fascinating hypothetical question.

Does Bitcoin herald a revolution in how we will create, exchange and spend money? Launched in 2009 by an anonymous developer, Bitcoin saw a c.1300% spike in value since the beginning of 2013, before recent steep falls suggested it might be a bubble. The Atlantic noted that starting your own currency is "not as complicated as it sounds.

What did ancient Rome look like in A.D. 320?  Rome Reborn is an international initiative to answer this question and create a 3D digital model of the Eternal City at a time when Rome’s population had reached its peak (about one million) and the first Christian churches were being built.