Most people have no control over their emotional well-being. They feel ecstatic when good stuff happens and depressed when things go wrong. Their lives are rollercoaster rides: sometimes up, sometimes way down.   But what if you could be happy no…

As the United States charges once more into war, little debate has centered on the actual utility of war. Instead, policymakers and pundits have focused their comments on combating the latest danger to our nation and its interests as posed by Islamic State militants.

Jim Manske’s insight:
Ever since childhood, the “utility” of war has puzzled me. It seemed to me that every war we studied in school eventually subsided into relative peace. I wondered, given that, why not go for the peace sooner rather than later…

Now, we have become conditioned to accept a constant war-footing…sending young men and women into harm’s way at great expense of individual and collective well-being…

In the world I want to live in, the military would be solely for implementing the protective use of force, and used only after all attempts at connection, understanding and mutuality have been exhausted.

Oy vey.

This week was terribly mundane.It was one of those weeks filled with laundry and schedules and coffee pots and ticking clocks. I was never a schedule loving person, for my drive for freedom and adventure overthrew sameness like waves, swallowing any id…

As the tallest animals in the world, with gangly legs, twisting black tongues and patchwork markings, giraffes are instantly recognisable. But we still know relatively little about the behaviour of these supposedly “gentle giants”. Footage re…