NEWS & MEDIA
Ode talks with John Taylor Gatto, an ex-New York City schoolteacher and author of five anti-public schooling books, including Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
At Aventurijn, a small private school in the Netherlands, children decide what to study and how to study it.
Schools train children to remain children all their lives, John Taylor Gatto argues in his new book. There’s another way: Teach them to become leaders and adventurers.
LIFE
J.K. Rowlings commencement speech at Harvard titled, "The fringe benefits of failure and the importance of imagination".
Failing is among life’s least pleasant experiences, but nothing else is as essential to success.
Notes towards a Geneva convention for loversSome rules of engagement for those wounded in love.
BUSINESS
What the subprime crisis tells us about the importance of community financial institutions.
Cement is a basic building block of economic growth. Its manufacture also produces twice as many CO2 emissions as aviation. How Bertrand Collomb and industry giant Lafarge are laying the foundations for sustainable cement.
ENERGY
After a false start in the 1990s, electric cars are back - and it looks like they're here to stay.
HEALTH
Audrey Hepburn and the secrets of inner beauty.
How do you make a non-toxic flame retardant? Mix citrus fruit, grape juice and flour, and - voila! - you've got the Molecular Heat Eater.
SPIRIT
The spiritual lives of men are, for many, concealed, repressed or forgotten. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Matthew Fox argues that men can rediscover their true selves by embracing the role of noble warrior.
COMMENTARIES
The joy of making an unexpectedly beautiful sound together with friends.
FOOD
Primeaval soupLife is better with bouillon.
TURNING WORDS
“If you are not sure where you are going, it is possible you are on the right road”
The United States presidential elections are tomorrow. more
