Live while you are alive
Collectively we do so many things for money, attention, to feel important or praised. But what if you woke up one morning and realised that what you were doing was pointless and emotionally unrewarding? Many people define themselves by what they do, either because of habit, fear, or not knowing what to do next. Businessmen …
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We could end up living “the bad dream of an economy in which robots do all the production, including the production of robots”, says the 1987 Nobel laureate Robert M. Solow. People may become better at emotional skills – the one realm where they might out-compete robots – but face-to-face interaction may continue to lose …
63% of boys aged between 12 and 17 have never written a letter, compared with 40% of girls. 45% of both boys and girls consider letters “outdated” because they take too long to deliver, they’re inconvenient and they’re too expensive. (We Transfer/The Times) So texting has taken over. Texting! How can you woo a girl …
Belgium has become the first country in the world to remove all age restrictions on euthanasia, meaning that terminally ill children under the age of 18 will now be able to request a lethal injection from doctors to end their lives. The extension of the country’s 2002 law on euthanasia, approved by parliament last week …
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way. Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936), an Austrian journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. When I was young I yearned for a slim, beautiful girlfriend, without success. My mother, rather beautiful herself, told me to forget it. “Everything” she …
