Humanity has steadily continued to develop its moral consciousness over the past centuries – solidarity, respect for others, human dignity, equality, environmental protection, and pacifism… However, it seems that there is still a huge gulf between these moral ideals and the reality of the world – a reality still marked...
Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about ‹Rediscovering the Sacred in...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983, an art dealer offered a Greek Kouros to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which he dated to the sixth century BC. The museum had art historians and archaeologists examine...
«Dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae» – Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. In his mathematical treatises, the Greek mathematician Pappus quotes Archimedes here. This is how the latter illustrates the law of the lever. With a fixed point and a long...
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