Material World?
On an instinctive and intuitive level we know we are multi- dimensional beings. As Jordan Peterson, the Canadian…
Desmond Tutu’s Message on Child Marriage
A message to men and boys about child marriage A few months ago, in Northern Ethiopia, I met…
Village Earth…
Everybody is talking about globalization. People love it, hate it, fear it, worry about it – reactions to…
The Trouble with Genocide
The trouble with our definition of the crime of genocide is that it doesn’t go far enough. Don’t…
Threshold of Goodness
Nobody is born evil. Nowadays we tend to connect evil with suffering insofar as we explain away acts…
How We Can Live Together…
More than 30 years ago, an Egyptian-born Dominican monk, Bruno Hussar, wanted to create a place where people…
Two’s a crowd
dichotomy – a division into two mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities. Two things can be true at…
You Are What You Write – The Alphabet Effect.
Broadly speaking, there are two distinct types of writing systems – logographic and alphabetic. A logographic system is one…
“Look at the bird…” – information versus knowledge.
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re…
Interesting Discoveries About the Brain (9)
Language and reading seem to us in our society to be interchangeable but while language exists all over…