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Death

We spend a lot of time avoiding any discussion of death. Very few of us have any desire or interest

This world we live in is a hologram. The first quantum physicists realised this almost a century ago, and in

In 2015, the comedienne Ruby Wax stopped being funny and got serious. She wrote Sane New World, an excellent, simple,

Would our lives be better if we limited our interaction with other people? The author Tom Wolfe once surveyed the

Do we really need to tell the world about our skills, talents and the unnecessary titles (like ‘expert’) we hold?

The emotional plea “come back to me” was famously used in the movie Atonement when the female lover (played by

Michael Talbot states in the first chapter of his ground-breaking 1991 book The Holographic Universe that he hopes that the

Most people have one simple purpose, which is to house, feed and clothe themselves and their families. Control of such

What is happiness? Are you happy? Why? What is the source of that happiness? Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian novel Fahrenheit

Sitting on the remote, harsh, freezing Scottish island of Jura back in the immediate post-WWII austerity, dying of tuberculosis, one