Social Life

What are the organizing principles of complex systems? What can insect colonies teach us about the human mind? Can the vast and complex be explained from the bottom up by the very small and very simple? When neuroscience and philosophy join with modern physics to ask the questions, unexpected answers are thrown up, pointing towards new models of perception and identity.

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Cartagena de las Indias

Word power

At the Hay Festival in Colombia, January 2008, writers from around the world spelled out the ways in which words affect us.

A series of five linked articles

Introduction

Sierra Leone / The Non-conformist

Uruguay / The translator

Britain / The philologist

Lebanon & England / The Non-combatants

Senegal & Colombia / The Ambassadors

NGO 2.0:
the next generation in civil society

In recent years, Non-Governmental Organizations have multiplied and spread all over the globe. If many are praised as humanitarian saviours, severe criticism of others has been leading to a major self-reassessment. This structural appraisal of the changing world of NGOs discovers a new model of NGO in the making: the network.

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