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The Columbus effect
Film about modern physics shows how humans create their reality Jurriaan Kamp | November 2004 Read More...
Reading, writing and revelation
How the written word helps refresh body, mind and soul. Ursula Sautter | October 2010 issue [caption id="attachment_2448" align="alignleft" width="180"] Photo: istockphoto.com/xaviarnau[/caption] Whenever the stabbing pain in her knee becomes unbearable, 17-year-old Mackenzie Bearup picks up a book Read More...
Words that heal
The psychological upside of writing it all down. David Servan-Schreiber| October 2010 issue Has your physician ever asked you to write about the worst day of your life? Probably not. Yet the Journal of the American Medical Association recently published a clinical study showing that writing can Read More...
It's payback time
To avoid credit card debt, always combine the pleasure of purchasing with the pain of paying. Adam Smith | October 2010 Read More...
Fixing the free market
How co-ops—businesses in which the employees are also the owners of the company—merge economic growth with social goals. Steven van Yoder | October 2010 issue In Quezon City, a new approach to funding funerals is just one way the Inner City Development Cooperative is bringing fresh life to Read More...
California dreaming becomes a reality
How Alvarado Street Bakery went from hippie collective to commercially successful co-op. Steven van Yoder | October 2010 issue Alvarado Street Bakery traces its roots to the Red Clover Worker’s Brigade, a 1970s Northern California workers collective dedicated to providing natural food products Read More...
I don't have an office; I am an office
A plea for a new style of work - no fixed location or workspace, but longer working hours and greater job satisfaction. Harry Starren | October 2010 Read More...
Flower power (no, not that kind...)
Why a 19th-century invention is only now finding its place in the sun as a 21st-century energy source. Greg T. Spielberg | October 2010 issue The SunCatcher is an enormous solar dish made of mirrors and metal, but it’s best thought of as a giant silver flower. At thirty feet (11 meters) tall, the Read More...
How the Stirling engine works
Greg T. Spielberg | October 2010 issue A Stirling engine uses internal gas that’s alternately heated and cooled to produce energy. Hydrogen, for instance, is sealed in a chamber connected to a series of pistons. When the hydrogen is heated, it expands, driving the pistons through the chamber. Read More...
Standing barefoot before God
The agony and ecstasy of writing as a spiritual practice. Rabbi Rami | October 2010 Read More...