Miscellaneous
In praise of idleness
The key to happiness is doing nothing in particular | April 2005 Read More...
The ABCs of homeopathy
Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue Homeopathic remedies, which come in pellet, tablet and liquid form, are widely available in Europe and in many natural-food stores and alternative-medicine pharmacies in the U.S. There are two basic categories of remedies: disease-specific preparations like Read More...
Look at the bright side
Why optimism is your best strategyJurriaan Kamp | July/Aug 2005 issue Everyday reality seems to leave little room for optimism. Television and front page news report mainly on failure and misery: Terrorism, violence, intolerance and climate change. People everywhere are under a continual onslaught Read More...
Jesus meets the free market
A Brazilian theologian's Christian response to globalization Marco Visscher | November 2005 Read More...
The world according to ubuntu
'I am because you are.' This widespread African teaching reminds us that you cannot be human alone. Tijn Touber | September 2004 issue The African equivalent to Rene Descartes’s famous dictum, “I think, therefore I am,” which is the foundation of much modern Western culture, is called ubuntu Read More...
Nature's way to lose weight
Minding your body's own signals is the simplest way to stop overeating Tijn Touber | October 2005 Read More...
Making waves
The visual poetry of the surf. Steve Hawk | December 2005 Read More...
An extraordinary act of compassion
In prison for attempted murder, my life suddenly changed when I received a letter from the policeman I had tried to kill. | September 2004 Read More...
Magnetism and the quantum field
Tijn Touber | March 2005 issue Recent breakthroughs in quantum physics offer explanations for electromagnetism’s ability to order and create. Inside the nucleus of an atom there is mainly empty space. The distance from the nucleus of an atom to the electrons surrounding it is proportionate to Read More...
Money should work for us, not the other way around
What is money? Do we need more of it to solve some of the world's problems? Or is money the cause of them? Ex-banker Bernard Lietaer thinks the latter is the case. And he has the solution: a new kind of money. Jurriaan Kamp | September 2005 issue You have no idea what money is. Bernard Lietaer Read More...