On December 9th, the European Parliament votes on the legality of fishing in deep waters (‟deep-sea” or ‟bottom trawling”). The fragile and rich biodiversity of the sea bottom has taken tens of thousands of years to form. Today, we are …

“Religion” comes from the Latin word religare which means to link, connect, or relate to. Thus, the view in each religion depends on what one is connecting with.

In the case of theistic religions, one establishes a link with God, …

‟Cooperation and partnership are the only routes that offer any hope for a better future for all humanity.” – Kofi Annan

The French anthropologist Joel Candau wrote that ‟Our species is the only one where strong, fair, diverse, risky, extended, …

On October 17, the” World Food Prize” was presented misleadingly as a ‟Nobel Prize for Food”. It was given to the Vice President of Monsanto, and a founding member of the group Syngenta and Marc Van Montagu, a? Belgian part …

The American comedian Demetri Martin said, ‟I’d like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It’d be called ‘Really Busy Hospital’.”

Until recently, there was little interest in the …

The new version of one of the world’s best selling video games, Grand Theft Auto V has just been released. This game contains unprecedented violence. The player may, for example, drive on the sidewalk and run over pedestrians whose blood …

Recently, I was talking with a nurse, who, like most of her colleagues, is constantly confronted with the sufferings and problems of the patients she cares for. She told me that the new training for healthcare personnel, in order to …

The word empathy means an affective resonance with someone else. If you are moved by the suffering of someone, even though you make a clear distinction between yourself and that person, you suffer because she suffers. You may also feel …