Issue 4

Spring 2013

5 articles · 68 min total reading time
Society

Why Is Bisexuality Becoming Mainstream?

Grey’s Anatomy, a TV series set in a Seattle hospital, has a senior female surgeon hopping into bed with a male colleague and then hopping into bed with a female colleague, whom sh…

12 min read Audio
Society

Emigration: Colonies Of The Mind And Space

Ever since our ancient ancestors walked out of Africa between 125,000 and 60,000 years ago humans have pushed themselves to explore and to emigrate to territories that would have b…

6 min read Audio
Global Balance of Power

Crisis: Or An Explanation On The Origins Of The Decline Of The West

Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus was written in 1592 and was based on an earlier German work about Dr Faustus, a talented German scholar at Wittenburg University who was f…

38 min read 3 charts Audio
Society

Prisons: We Never Used To Have Them. Will They Exist In The Future?

Prisons as we know them are relatively new and we can thank Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy of utilitarianism in the 19th century for the first modern prisons. Previously people had be…

3 min read Audio
Jobs & Economy

Jobs: First, Get Rid Of Expensive Westerners. Second, Get Rid Of People Entirely

Why do so many Western politicians and economists promote a trading system that increases Western unemployment levels and results in a gigantic transfer of wealth to the East every…

9 min read 3 charts Audio
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By Tristan Fischer. A lifelong fascination with history, science, and technology led to a simple observation: the deeper you understand how the past unfolded, the more clearly you can see the future. These essays trace historical patterns and technological trajectories to work out what comes next.

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