Miscellaneous
Laughter really is the best medicine
Patch Adams, a physician and clown, considers humour and friendship part of the cure in any healing process. That's why he wants to build his own hospital.Tijn Touber | June 2004 issue WHO? Patch Adams WHAT? The Gesundheit Institute, a hospital where doctors and patients treat each other as friends Read More...
A man with balls
On skates he won four Olympic gold medals and broke 11 world records. Now, using sports and games, he's dedicating himself to helping ensure children in poor areas have safe and healthy futures. Ode speaks with Johann Olav Koss.Marco Visscher | April 2006 issue In the run-up to the 1994 Lillehammer Read More...
On the right foot
The newly popular idea of Global Footprintlets us measure the ecological impact of how we liveMarco Visscher | June 2004 issue “It is the best way to calculate our performance on sustainability,” declares Carwyn Jones, Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside for Wales, explaining Read More...
Ruth Camargo: Finding beauty in service
Jaime Jaramillo, who works with street children in Colombia, says Ruth Camargo is one former street child who is inspiring others in her community. Jaime Jaramillo | Jan/Feb 2009 issue Ruth Camargo, Bogotá, Columbia Photo: Firstline Schools, Inc. When I met Ruth Camargo, she was living in the Read More...
The controversial cure
Is homeopathy a healing idea whose time has come--again?Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Valerie Ohanian was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in the late 1970s when severe fatigue descended out of nowhere. Suddenly, she couldn’t stay up for more than 15 minutes at a time Read More...
The Columbus effect
Film about modern physics shows how humans create their reality Jurriaan Kamp | November 2004 Read More...
The Courthouse Effect
Our planet is getting warmer. This poses a threat to all of us. Politicians are failing to turn the tide. So do corporations and consumers. Here's a glimmer of hope: Lawyers in the U.S. are gearing up to file suit against industries creating greenhouse gases. Jurriaan Kamp | June 2006 issue Back in Read More...
Right turn on green
The rise of a political paradox brings hope for the world Jay Walljasper | June 2006 issue Modern politics is notorious for the way it creates strange new meanings for familiar words. “National security,” for instance, now means attacking distant countries. “Choice,” in American electoral Read More...
Two cheers for globalism
...and then two more for localism Jay Walljasper | June 2006 issue One of the basic tenets drilled into students at U.S. journalism schools is that every story has two sides. But in college I was lucky to run into a German-émigré professor who—perhaps hearing enough about tenets of all kinds Read More...
Yogurt is only part of the story...
Crist Marco Visscher | June 2006 issue Each month La Fageda sells 2 million containers of yogurt in Catalonia, Spain, to a growing group of faithful consumers prepared to pay for quality—and a unique social experiment. The company’s natural yogurts, you see, are produced largely by disabled and Read More...