Is it our fault?
Our faults are no less real for being unchosen. What distinguishes us from machines is that we can do something about them, not that we created them in the first place.
ReadAuthor: Julian Baggini
Closer to Truth
VIDEO INTERVIEW CLIPS. I was filmed a while ago for a US TV show called “Closer to Truth”. Several clips[…]
ReadThe unwinnable God argument
The most vocal atheists and the believers who take their bait appear ever more like a long-married couple who prefer the familiarity of their dysfunctional relationship to the emptiness that lies beyond an amicable divorce. They trade the same old niggles and complaints with no hope or expectation of mutual understanding.
ReadHow can we cope with loneliness?
No matter how close we are to others, we can never truly understand what it means to be them. Although the single may envy content couples, two never completely become one. At any point, the person who felt so embraced and loved may be left alone again, be that by accident, illness or unpredictable changes in feeling. How often do we see people baffled when they find themselves betrayed by someone they thought they knew and could rely on?
ReadOn traditional foodstuffs and techniques
When no corner of the world has been left unexplored, and imports come with the stigma of food miles, native rare breeds and heritage fruit and vegetables have become the new exotica. But, as broadcaster and greengrocer Charlie Hicks puts it, since “there’s often a very good reason they stopped growing them in the first place” is there anything more to this new-found love of the old than nostalgia, novelty and scarcity value?
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