Anthropology
Music and Healing
Looks at the neurobiology of ritual trance, and how collectively experienced music can raise your spirits, in both senses of the word.
The Meaning Response (a.k.a the placebo effect) is a big factor in how we recover from illness. How could this be acknowledged and implemented in western institutions, such as clinics and hospitals?
Who Owns the History of Tibet?
It very much depends from where you are looking. And after some digging in the University of Auckland Library, I unearthed heaps of historically suspect Chinese propaganda…
The Compass of the Country (politics is a dirty word)
2010 election.
The Three Masks of the Conservatives
frustration and disbelief at the shadowy kinds of lives some politicians lead before becoming the most important people in the country.
The 2010 Election – We are Left with No Choice
Question Marks
The Contradictory Calls of ‘Big Society!’ and ‘Shrink the State!’
