Miscellaneous
Playing with your emotions
Taking charge of feelings so they don't rule your lifeTijn Touber | March 2006 issueScreams, curses and lamentations… That was what was coming out of Jill's mouth. For 15 solid minutes she made clear to me that no one understood her and that her life was unbearably difficult. She was furious with Read More...
One last thing...
"a year should have 13 months" Marco Visscher |March 2005 issue What’s wrong with a 12-month year? “Our current calendar is completely absurd. It was conceived by a caste of male priests who were looking for an instrument to ensure we’d pay our taxes on time. The word ‘calendar’ stems Read More...
One last thing...
We should stop debating Macro Visscher | March 2006 WHAT’S WRONG WITH DEBATING?Thomas Benedict: “In a debate, reason is misused in order to defeat the other person. Literally. Just look at the origin of the word. De is ‘to the utmost’; bat is ‘beat.’ You see it in words like battle and Read More...
Who owns Alaska's oil?
What happened when Jay Hammond started thinking of other ways to share the gifts of nature Peter Barnes | March 2006 issue When former governor Jay Hammond, who died last August, became involved in Alaska politics in the sixties, he lived in the treeless, windswept fishing village of Naknek. He had Read More...
We feel-see the future in hearts
Jurriaan Kamp | June 2005 issue Are human beings intuitively aware of future events? Stories constantly circulate about people suddenly deciding to take another route home, thus avoiding disaster. Or those who seek contact with a loved one just when that loved one is in danger. Is that intuition? Read More...
Venus rising
What will it really take to liberate women--and the world? Kim Ridley | September 2005 Read More...
Who owes whom?
The new idea of ecological debt rearranges relations between the global South and North Marco Visscher | Jan/Feb 2005 issue The amount Ethiopia pays towards its debt to international lending institutions is four times the amount it spends on health care. In order to meet their debt and interest Read More...
A coffee journey
Olaf Hammelburg | March 2006 issue Photos by Olaf Read More...
God speaks to everyone all the time
Author of the international bestseller Conversations with God, Neale Donald Walsch reflects upon God's role in our lives and what we can do to make a better world. Tijn Touber | March 2006 issue One dark night back in 1992, Neale Donald Walsch sat down and wrote a letter full of self-pity to God. Read More...
What's in you?
A small sampling of the numerous chemical substances found in our bodies Marco Visscher | November 2005 issue • Alkylphenols. Emulsifier added to pesticides and solvents. Notorious for disrupting hormone balance. When fish were exposed to these substances, sex changes resulted; in mice the Read More...