Half the Sky
In the Introduction to their book, Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn, recount the story…
Category: courage
Interesting Discoveries About the Brain (2)
We are more than just a collection of cells and matter – but our physical reality may be…
Suffering…what is it good for?
Evil causes suffering and evil is preventable, but even in a paradisiacal world without evil, suffering would still exist.…
Chaotic Butterflies
In ordinary life chaos means disorder – random, disorganised confusion. In science it means something entirely different –…
An Answer to Evil
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear…
God couldn’t be everywhere…
God couldn’t be everywhere, so He created mothers – or so the Jewish proverb goes. Mothers like, Las…
The Women of Rosenstrasse
We have become so result oriented that we have moved away from doing what we believe is right…
Tsunami of Good
If you take each tiny ethical action and add it to the next tiny ethical action and continue…
The Banality of Heroism
Philip Zimbardo, the psychiatrist in charge of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment has a new venture – he’s…
“…all the fight was out of me.”
It’s essential for all of us to judge our actions relative to our ethical and moral standards rather…