Should we cultivate resilience?
If you find yourself drawing on your resilience a lot, then you ought to ask yourself why you keep hitting the floor.
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The city that plays together, stays together
The Playable City movement can be seen as a creative response to the coldness and anonymity of the urban environment, which technology threatens to make even worse. Play is about interrupting the utilitarian efficiency of the urban environment and getting people to think about what actually makes us human.
ReadAs consumers, do we have double standards?
People still shop as though ethics were some kind of optional extra, relevant only to a few premium purchases. Consumers tend to operate according to a double-standard: they are outraged when companies do not ensure they source ethically but they do not often make much effort to source ethically themselves.
ReadSomething rotten in the town of Rotherham
Denis MacShane, Dolly Parton, Jamie Oliver, Ukip, the BNP and the sex-abuse scandal are connected by a failure of the political classes to deal with the problems faced by those left behind in post-industrial Britain. Political parties have not focused enough on society’s losers, finding it more expedient to chase the swing voter and morally easier to call for multiculturalism. What we are now seeing with the rise of Ukip, however, is that dodging the hard issues is socially corrosive and electorally dangerous.
ReadIs it time to rethink our dietary advice?
It turns out that the more we understand how nutrition works and how complicated it is, the simpler the dietary advice we need to follow. In theory, any number of changes might make your diet healthier, but in practice diet is too complicated for us to be able to micromanage it. Too much is unknown about how the elements of diet interact for us to be able to change the variables to achieve the result we desire.
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