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Research shows societal openness and tolerance makes for happier citizens

January 8, 2020 by Amelia Buckley

How do a society’s policies about openness, equality, and privacy affect the citizens who live in it? New research published in the Journal of Positive Psychology found that citizens living in more open and tolerant countries are significantly happier.  Researchers from Kyoto … [Read more...] about Research shows societal openness and tolerance makes for happier citizens

Possibility: Keeping refugees afloat

May 4, 2017 by Rick Greer

From The Optimist Magazine Fall 2015 A quarter of a million. That’s the number of immigrants and asylum seekers who have already tried to get to Europe in 2015 by crossing the Mediterranean Sea. It’s the highest number on record, according to the UN’s High Commissioner for … [Read more...] about Possibility: Keeping refugees afloat

Q & A with John Taylor Gatto

September 8, 2008 by Jurriaan Kamp

Ode talks with John Taylor Gatto, an ex-New York City schoolteacher and author of five anti-public schooling books, including Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling , which you’ll find an exclusive excerpt in the … [Read more...] about Q & A with John Taylor Gatto

The forgotten thinker you need to know

January 21, 2007 by Jurriaan Kamp

Thirty years ago, Ivan Illich raised questions on the promise of progress. The blind faith in modern development and technology was a threat to human's freedom, he argued. That critical analysis was one of the pillars for the Ode founders. In 2001, a year before Illich died at … [Read more...] about The forgotten thinker you need to know

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