Love Will Save Us
View image | gettyimages.com By Samantha Thomas Call it politically incorrect or anything else you'd like, but I'm not afraid to say it: I love Pope Francis and I strongly disagree with those who say...
View ArticleYes, There is Really a Business Conference Called 'The Love Summit'
By Samantha Thomas Often when I tell people that DreamChange's annual business conference is called The Love Summit, they pause to reflect on whether they heard me correctly. Once they realize that...
View ArticleYes, There is Really a Business Conference Called "The Love Summit"
By Samantha Thomas Often when I tell people that DreamChange's annual business conference is called The Love Summit, they pause to reflect on whether they heard me correctly. Once they realize that...
View ArticleIn Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Let's Dream Big
By Samantha Thomas "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - MLK Like Martin Luther King Jr., I too have a dream. In fact, I have many dreams. But for simplicity's...
View ArticleManuel Castells: How modern political movements straddle urban space and...
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long...
View ArticleThe end of capitalism has begun
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long...
View ArticleMaking the Case
Summary The debate about fully autonomous weapons has continued to intensify since the issue reached the international stage four years ago.[1] Lawyers, ethicists, military personnel, human rights...
View ArticleWhite House Announces Additional Commitments to the American Business Act on...
(Source: President of the United States) Today, the White House will announce additional commitments from 73 companies from across the American economy who are joining the American Business Act on...
View ArticlePC Epidemic Grips U.S. Colleges (Tea Party Inc)
(Source: Tea Party Inc) Students increasingly demand protection from 'offensive' words, ideas, subjects (Atlantic) - Something strange is happening at America's colleges and universities. A movement is...
View ArticleThe battle for minds, and role of human behaviour in generating plutocracies
The control or influence of information is diffused through education, politics, culture, media and the process of socialization. Steve Biko. Flickr/ Sami Ben Gharbia. Some rights reserved. ‘The most...
View ArticleThe Future of Jobs and Jobs Training
As robots, automation and artificial intelligence perform more tasks and there is massive disruption of jobs, experts say a wider array of education and skills-building programs will be created to meet...
View ArticleMeet the top 100 business visionaries creating value for the world
At Business Insider, we believe capitalism can and should be a force for good. With this inaugural edition of Business Insider 100: The Creators, we are celebrating leaders who embody this spirit. Many...
View ArticleAI Revolution 101
Our last invention, greatest nightmare, or pathway to utopia? About This essay, originally published in eight short parts, aims to condense the current knowledge on Artificial Intelligence. It explores...
View ArticleAmerican Food in American Literature
The months between the cherries and the peaches Are brimming cornucopias which spill Fruits red and purple, somber-bloomed and black; Then, down rich fields and frosty river beaches We’ll trample...
View ArticleSTATEMENT OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE...
(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) 29 February 2016 Following is the statement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, at the thirty-first session...
View Article2017 Atlantic Council Distinguished Leadership Awards
June 6, 2017 2017 Atlantic Council Distinguished Leadership Awards Hosts: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Chairman, Atlantic Council Honorees: Her Royal...
View Article"Through diplomacy, France means to be at the center of the (...) (Ambassade...
(Source: Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis) Speech by M. François Hollande, President of the Republic Paris - August 30, 2016 Prime Minister, President of the National Assembly, President of the...
View ArticleWhile conscious of the threat posed by a globalization of indifference, we...
(Source: Comunità di S Egidio) MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESSPOPE FRANCIS FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE XLIX WORLD DAY OF PEACE 1 JANUARY 2016 Overcome Indifference and Win Peace 1. God is not indifferent! God...
View ArticleThe Obama Doctrine
Ruven Afanador Friday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the...
View ArticleFinal Results (Fundsmith Emerging Equities Trust plc)
(Source: Fundsmith Emerging Equities Trust plc) RNS Number : 6170S Fundsmith Emerging Equities Tst PLC 18 March 2016 FUNDSMITH EMERGING EQUITIES TRUST plc Audited Results for the Year ended 31 December...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View Article“Difference,” American-Style: Of High-Horse Riders and Low-Hanging Fruit
Annals of Parliamentary Cretinism: 4 This has been in the works since the get-go. HRC faces a tight race in what ought to be a walkover because she is a lousy candidate and a terrible campaigner, and...
View ArticleAn Evolutionary Perspective on Yeast Mating-Type Switching [Review]
Abstract Cell differentiation in yeast species is controlled by a reversible, programmed DNA-rearrangement process called mating-type switching. Switching is achieved by two functionally similar but...
View ArticleShared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe (Delegation of the European...
(Source: Delegation of the European Union to China) We need a stronger Europe. This is what our citizens deserve, this is what the wider world expects. We live in times of existential crisis, within...
View ArticleA House on Shaky Ground: Eight Structural Flaws of the Western Worldview
Imagine living in a home with structural flaws in the foundations. At first, you might not notice too much. Every now and then, some cracks might appear in the walls. If they got too bad, you might...
View ArticleServing the Rich, Elite and Criminally Insane Capitalists: The Unsilencing of...
One of the toughest things I’ve been facing is the bald-faced collective delusion of fellow Americans. From the rank and file social worker, to even the people I serve – homeless, street people,...
View ArticleSowing Seeds of Gratitude to Cultivate Wellbeing
Paul J. Mills, Tiffany Barsotti, Meredith A. Pung, Kathleen L. Wilson, Laura Redwine, and Deepak Chopra Gratitude, along with love, compassion, empathy, joy, forgiveness, and self-knowledge, is a vital...
View ArticleSage Therapeutics' (SAGE) CEO Jeff Jonas on Q2 2017 Results - Earnings Call...
Sage Therapeutics (NASDAQ:SAGE) Q2 2017 Earnings Conference Call August 3, 2017 16:30 ET Executives Paul Cox - Head, Investor Relations Jeff Jonas - Chief Executive Officer Kimi Iguchi - Chief...
View ArticleWelcome to the age of anger
The seismic events of 2016 have revealed a world in chaos – and one that old ideas of liberal rationalism can no longer explain...
View ArticleHuman Enhancement (Pew Research Center)
(Source: Pew Research Center) Human enhancement is at least as old as human civilization. People have been trying to enhance their physical and mental capabilities for thousands of years, sometimes...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as Free Will
For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing this belief could be calamitous. Our...
View ArticlePsychedelic socialism
Acid communism? Psychedelic Corbynism? Freak left? Call it what you will – but re-infuse endeavours with a spirit of radical collectivism and unselfing to revivify co-opted countercultures for a world...
View Article“Romanticism and War”: Contextualising a Theory of Interpretation
In 1914 I reviewed what was promoted as a significant revision in the interpretation of what in Britain and continental Europe is called “The Great War” and since 1945 has been popularly called the...
View ArticleBizarre bureaucratic dysfunction in child labour
The ILO, UNICEF, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child promote policies known to harm children. What will make them engage with their critics? Adolescents working in Dhaka, Bangladesh. BBC World...
View ArticleDegrowth as an Aesthetics of Existence: Part 2
1 Ed note: this is Part 2 of the Introduction to Samuel Alexanders’ new book Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth. Part 1 of the essay can be found on Resilience.org here. This essasy...
View ArticleSpecial report: Parliament in Chaos 1951-1958
Enter the invisible oligarchyFrom Dawn's ArchivesDawn Delhi I: Genesis of a NewspaperRare audio extracts Enter the invisible oligarchy By Dr Syed Jaffar Ahmed Khawaja Nazimuddin, the country’s second...
View ArticleThe True Sharing Economy: Inaugurating an Age of the Heart
Yet here again we must return to the original premise of our enquiry, for none of these future transformations are foreseeable without the large-scale release of compassion and awareness throughout the...
View ArticleAnnual Financial Report
12 May 2017 RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2017 10% NAV growth marks eighth consecutive year of increasing NAV HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited ("HVPE" or the "Company"), a closed-end...
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