Halcyon Imagines

Please see below selected recent love-related change.

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• What's New? - Love

July 2019

• How people meet is changing fast. In 1995, for example, only 2% of couples met online; by 2017 it was 39%.

June 2019

Please see below selected recent empathy-related change.

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• What's New? - Empathy
• What's Changing? - Compassion

June 2019

Please see below selected recent slowness-related change.

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June 2019

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

Please see below selected recent civility-related change.

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May 2019

Please see below selected recent consciousness-related change.

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April 2019

• The question of whether other brains - quite alien to our own, such as those of non-human animals – are capable of awareness, is just one of the many conundrums that arise when scientists start thinking about consciousness. When does an awareness of our own being first emerge in the brain? Why does it feel the way it does? And will computers ever be able to achieve the same internal life?

January 2019

Please see below key recent compassion-related change.

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• Halcyon Compassion Headlines
• What's Changing? - Empathy

April 2019

Please see below recent time-related change.

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• Halcyon Time Headlines

April 2019

Please see below selected recent fear-related change.

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• Halcyon Fear Headlines
• What's Changing? - Anxiety

April 2019

Please see below selected recent society-related change.

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December 2018

• Students addressed societal issues from around the world, from post-colonialism to mental health, ageing, inequality and migration. Using photographs, film and text, the students presented a visual exploration of their chosen subject.

November 2018

A professor and former dean at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University argued in a 2013 book that corporations should restructure around three key principles:

• First, articulate clear values: why does the company exist, and what does it believe in?
• Second, appoint “trustees” to protect the interests of stakeholders and uphold the values of the corporation.
• Third, restrict voting shares to long-term investors - and he also believes that governments should use the corporate tax system to encourage “public values by private corporations”.

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.

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.

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.

...a growing open-source platform claims to have achieved this, tracking emerging signs of conflict, epidemics etc. in troubled areas around the world.