Miscellaneous
What my son is actually doing
A mother discovers how her teenager is making friends online | September 2006 issue “When I observed our son playing one of his games, I was surprised to find that the goal of our son’s game was not to kill or be killed, but to build power and partnerships. Our son realized that the only way he Read More...
Category 1: organic products
The candidates for the category 'The best organic product' | October 2004 issue Tea The organic bonus At the age of 27, Kiran Tawadey obtained certification for an organic tea plantation in Darjeeling, India. This was on land where a family friend and third-generation tea planter had been Read More...
Magnetic therapy and health
Tijn Touber | March 2005 issue Magnetic therapy is being used to treat a wide array of illnesses and disorders. Magnets work very well to ease pain—by quickly transporting waste material out of the cells and numbing nerve pathways. Magnets have shown success in cases of arthritis, rheumatism, Read More...
Life goes on
Tijn Touber | December 2005 issue When the The Lancet published his study of near-death experiences, Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel couldn’t have known it would make him into one of the world’s most-talked-about scientists. It seems everyone wants to know about the man who managed to get his Read More...
Feeding our sanity
Prince Charles explains why local food is healthy for our communities. "We no more want to eat anonymous junk food which can be bough anywhere." Prins Charles | May 2005 issue I have always believed that agriculture is not only the oldest, but also the most important of humanity’s productive Read More...
Just like in the movies
Heroes of Hollywood films follow the same patterns as our own real-life experiences. Use your favorite movies as keys to recognizing these phases in your own life and discover the hero within you. Tijn Touber and Manfred van Doorn | September 2005 issue 1. The prologue During the opening Read More...
The most unusual college in the world
Ode visits KaosPilots--a remarkable business school in Denmark Marco Visscher | October 2005 issue Instead of writing papers for their business class, five Scandinavian students—all of them women—used a school assignment to do a good deed for fellow young people in Bosnia. They rented a Read More...
Miracle on Elm Street
A happy reminder that hope still reigns in the worldJay Walljasper | November 2004 issue I am sitting right now in what I jokingly refer to as Ode’s Western Hemisphere Editorial Headquarters, a/k/a the back bedroom of my house in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. At least that’s what I called it Read More...
One last thing...
"A teacher should not give grades" Marco Visscher | June 2005 issue What’s wrong with giving grades? We’ve done so for many generations. “Putting a grade on a paper implies that the work is done instead of providing feedback about how to improve it. I refuse to let my students be Read More...
Back to the land
Homeless revive the Polish countryside. A portrait of Tomas Sadowski who has found the ultimate solution for the problems of the homeless in the city, as well as the deserted rural areas. | July 2004 Read More...