Making Connections
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Sometimes I get invited to give weird talks. Like, to the people who dress up in stuffed animal costumes to perform at sporting events. Unfortunately I couldn’t go. But it…
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The Spirit Level
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However, The Spirit Level, the collaborative result of over fifty years of research by Professors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, emphatically does not fall into that trap. The authors’ extensive…
Birds Eye View Film Festival 2010
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There was a serendipitous turn of events here in London early this March. The team at London’s Birds Eye View Film Festival were only days into their annual celebration of…
Coming Home
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‘Get real’ is an idiom I have never had positive associations with. Its expression passes judgement, conjuring as it does images of one finger-pointing, eyebrow-raising human shadow on a pedestal…
Take It From The Top
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One of the most important traits of a good leader is their ability to make the right decisions. Wise decision-making, inevitably, involves moral, or ethical choices, and this occurs every…
Making The Earth Go Round
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Achim Steiner is the man who coined the phrase ‘peak everything’ in a speech to World Challenge – a global competition aimed at finding projects or small businesses that are…
Modern Master
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When the great utilitarian architect Le Corbusier visited Brazil in the 1930s, he was to have a profound effect on Brazilian design. Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer are perhaps the two greatest Brazilian modernist architects most famously responsible for the planning and building of Brasilia in the 1950s. It comes as no surprise, then, that architect Marcio Kogan, one of the leading lights in Brazil today, hails these two along with the likes of Affonso Reidy and Lina Bo Bardi in his pantheon of great national architects.
Treeless Mountain
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The sisters are abandoned by their poverty- stricken mother to face their new role as burdensome children in the hands of their alcoholic Big Aunt. Brushed aside and ignored, Jin…
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
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In the 20th century the Grimm Tales were praised by W. H. Auden as one of the founding works of Western culture, while the Nazi party held them up as…
