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The Compass and the Cosmos: Sacred Geometry

Sacred geometry, examined: the real history behind the ten forms, what nature actually does, and what physics has found in the shape of the universe.

The Greening of Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Riyadh is planting 7.5m trees and running a new metro against an Expo 2030 deadline. A look at the water, heat and money behind the desert city's greening

Ocean Plastic Pollution: How the Tide Is Finally Turning

Ocean plastic pollution is falling: 39% less on Australian coasts. The data, the clean-up technology and the policies proving change is possible

The Backbone of Kindness: Rekindling Our Oldest Virtue in Troubled Times

Kindness is not niceness. Kevin J. Parker argues it is civilisation's load-bearing structure—the backbone on which coexistence depends

Henry David Thoreau and the American Transcendental Vision

Thoreau was an early influence on my thinking and as a teenager I fell in love with his prose, philosophy and the Romantic Transcendentalist...

From Inequality to Equity: A Roadmap for Gender Justice

This is regrettably still a massive issue and after 67 years on the planet I am astounded that we still haven't got gender justice...

The Universal Struggle: Human Rights in a Fractured World

Human rights face an existential crisis in 2025. Despite 77 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that "all human beings are...

The Human Blueprint: What the World Values in an Age of Upheaval

Listen to the main concepts in this article in our Deep Dive. The Data-Driven Map of Human Values: From Survival to Self-Expression What does it...

Pacifism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Introduction Pacifism, the principled opposition to war and violence as means of settling disputes, has emerged as one of the most significant moral and political...

China’s Cultural Tapestry: Five Millennia of Global Contributions

In the heart of Beijing's Forbidden City, where vermillion walls once separated emperor from subject, tourists from every continent now photograph the same architectural...

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