A gentler way

“Don’t talk of stars, burning above, If you’re in love, show me!” My Fair Lady, 1956 “Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish” Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976 In this post, I am going to return unapologetically to the theme of individual action.  The Western way of life…

“In its stoking of our fears, the news cruelly exploits our weak hold on a sense of perspective.” Alain de Botton, The News: a User’s Manual “The availability heuristic, like other heuristics of judgement, substitutes one question for another: you wish to estimate the size of a category or the frequency of an event, but…