Faith & Assumption
The genetic sequences they threaded together like guesses on a string are in fact random products of the human metabolism, not the genome of a virus…
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The genetic sequences they threaded together like guesses on a string are in fact random products of the human metabolism, not the genome of a virus…
Why do celebrity “truthers” cherry-pick truth from the branches while turning a blind eye to the roots?
The antibody test does not detect a SARS CoV-2 specific antibody. What it detects is the most common kind of antibody – antibodies that have been with us for millennia…
Who do you trust to tell you the truth about your health? Politicians? The media? Or doctors?
So what are we looking at now? The world hypnotised and paralysed by a giant illusion. By the fear of a virus that isn’t a virus that you can ‘catch’ simply by fearing it…
A real virus is unpredictable. If the perception of a virus can be planted in the minds of the world, its progress – including a “second wave” – is eminently controllable…
For the guardians of normal, a revolution driven by art is the most dreaded kind of popular uprising. For that reason, nothing is left to chance…
In a miniature city with thirteen intersecting streets of dizzying detail made out of discarded and recycled all-sorts, it can be hard to keep track of the little artist that built it.
…you are struck by the realization that you have actually got lost trying to find the capital city of a major industrialized country.
Wayne Wang’s return to the Berlinale brings a slow paced reality twister set in a Japanese seaside resort, where a kooky perversion turns cutthroat.
..The nightly gun violence has become little more than a guessing game: was that the sound of a 9mm or a 22 caliber? It’s all just a normal part of the fabric.
Spanish director, Alvoro Longoria went to North Korea with an open mind – just not quite as open as he would like to think…
The chief of the Stasi, Erich Mielke had one overriding ambition: “to know everything about everyone.” For his authoritarian successors the ambition never faded…
In India, the word “development” once referred to the spiritual growth of an individual. These days it refers mainly to the material growth of the economy, and while extravagantly celebrating the idea of unity, politicians are importing values, which by their very nature, give rise to disunity.
Are India’s deals with the West a predestined part of the great cosmic cycle? Must the downward spiral of growing division inevitably end with the the Natraj, Shiva’s final dance of creative destruction? And as home to one of the last living traditions that bears the common hallmarks of many lost civilisations around the world, what does India’s spiritual decline mean for the rest of us?
Containing interviews and photographs by the author
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