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Frans de Waal’s The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society is a lesson for humans, culled from studies on primate behavior. The fascinating lessons push the boundaries between man and animal. The book is also a plea for the use in human society of the concept of ‘living together.’ Frans de Waal, a multi-awarded primatologist and [...]

The International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement’s new international campaign “Our World Your Move” is an innovative campaign highlighting all the burning problems of the world and calling for participatory action to bring about change. The campaign developed by Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland is highly creative. The website, ourworld-yourmove.org [...]

The topic of superheroes facing their own personal devils is not new. We’ve seen it many times before. Hancock has seen his kind many times over. The purportedly unfilmable graphic book recently turned into a film is proof that humans will always try to demystify superheroes if only it fulfills their desire to explain the extraordinary challenges [...]

Any human being can relate to the themes contained in Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol.’ That is the reason why this tale has endured through the decades. The universality of its themes makes it realistic, approachable, easily understood, and closely relating to human experience anywhere – from the time it was published in 1843 right till [...]

The mark of good literature is unpredictability. A literary piece is good if the reader does not easily guess what the topic is from the start. A good piece of literature should unfold, bit by bit, through the entire length of the material. Mary Oliver’s poem “Singapore,” from her poetry collection entitled ‘House of Light’ is one such material. [...]