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Occupy the theater
For almost two years now, 60 actors and theater technicians have been occupying Rome’s Teatro Valle. During that time, the site of Teatro Valle Occupato (“Occupy Teatro Valle”) has become the most visited theater in the city. Teatro Valle, built in 1726 between the Pantheon and Piazza Navona, Read More...
Small message, big impact
Olivia Nalweyiso has three children—“and no more,” the 32-year-old Ugandan firmly declares. Nalweyiso lives in a fishing community on the banks of Lake Victoria. Large families are the rule here, but Nalweyiso has deliberately made herself an exception. Since 2009, she has been learning Read More...
Out now: The Consciousness Issue
We need something new. The daily news makes the case for very different approaches and solutions. Whether it is the next storm of the century that some say is linked to our own behavior, the political stalemate in the U.S., the financial system that keeps failing most people or expensive Read More...
The legacy of the Occupy movement
Now that the tents are packed up and the banners put away, what’s left of Occupy? Are disillusionment and disappointment with a movement that undertook to change everything but did not achieve any real change all that remain? Laments about a lack of clear demands, a political agenda, Read More...
Enviu launches the Open Health Community Challenge
We’ve all heard the saying “good health is priceless,” and most of us believe it. But a good healthcare system isn’t. Rising prices, accessibility and patient safety plague the industry. Enter the crowdsourcing organization Enviu, which is launching the Open Health Community Challenge to Read More...
Simply being kind
Smile at a stranger, bring a treat to a co-worker or let someone else go in front of you in a line. As it turns out, these random acts of kindness could make you a happier person. A few years ago, Stanford University psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky asked students to carry out five weekly Read More...
Flamenco, paella and cooperatives
The Spanish have been hit hard by the economic crisis. Our newspapers and news networks remind us of the unemployment numbers and austerity measures on a daily basis. A dismal housing market, a huge budget deficit; the situation seems hopeless. But it’s not the whole story. People in Spain Read More...
The power of persistence
When Luchia Ghebreselasie arrived at the Literacy Council of Montgomery County in Rockville, Maryland, to enroll in an English program, the teachers knew it was going to be an uphill battle. It had only been a few years since Ghebreslasie and her family had been sponsored to immigrate to the Read More...
I know I’m conscious. But how? And why?
Recently at a remote beach in Mexico I was looking at the most beautiful stars filled night sky. The darkness was perfect and there were more stars than I had ever seen. Looking at the stars always overwhelms me. I know the theory of the Big Bang that tells me that the universe has been expanding Read More...
Innovation on the fringes
Kibera is the slum, the shantytown that—in the Western mind, at least—defines the grotesque poverty of the developing world. Rusting corrugated roofs sprawl to the horizon. More than 200,000 people live here on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Residents walk alongside open sewers and Read More...