Humanity has steadily continued to develop its moral consciousness over the past centuries – solidarity, respect for others, human dignity,...
Just after the sun sets, the two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, can be seen shining in the western sky...
Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about ‹Rediscovering the Sacred in Agriculture›. Shiva can speak authoritatively about the ‹sacred› in part due to her experience of the ‹profane›. She has seen the ‹Green Revolution› – and the associated use of fertilizers and genetically...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
‹Who am I?› – That is the big question – perhaps the biggest. It stood above Delphi’s temple as ‹Gnothi...
Two years ago, at the beginning of December, there was a spectacular solar eclipse at Tierra del Fuego in Southern Argentina. A study trip to the Black Sun, as well as the penguins and the largest glaciers on earth, was planned and booked by enough fellow travellers. The Covid pandemic...
«Dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae» – Give me a place to stand and I shall move the...
Ibrahim Abouleish stood under the expansive sun awning, and a thousand Egyptians sat with their forearms propped up on the...
Recently, Christoph Sailer, who runs resource management for water and soil in Aachen, told me that when he was a child, he was allowed to bring friends home anytime. The extended family was used to providing for many, and having two or three more mouths at the lunch table did...
According to Herbert Salzmann, the oldest form of cooperation brings the pyramid into view: someone says where to go. The...
In 1961, the astrophysicist Francis Drake came up with the equation later named after him, with which one should be...
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