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We have been inventing things for millions of years. But which is the best of them? Samantha Weinberg draws up criteria for the third in our series of Big Questions, and makes her choice …
From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, January/February 2012
Nearly two thousand years ago, three elderly Chinese men sat in the gardens of Changle Palace, …

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In truth, real people are usually a mix of the three archetypes, but most people tend towards one particular type

It may be the defining London sight: people walking up escalators at Tube stations. In this city only tourists stand goggling blankly into space. That’s because London – like Manhattan, Hong Kong and other great cities …

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~ Posted by Simon Willis, February 1st 2012
The Economist recently published a three-page briefing about Mongolia, which sits on vast reserves of copper and gold. “Mongolia has a chance,” the paper wrote, “of becoming a Qatar or a Brunei: a country that has only a small population, but almost all of it, in global terms, …

http://www.economist.com/node/21543487?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/thepoweroftribes
Businesspeople need to reckon with the Anglosphere, the Sinosphere and the Indosphere
 

EVER since the collapse of the Soviet Union ended the old, neat division between East and West, people have been inventing new ways of dividing up the world. In the 1990s it was fashionable to talk about America, Europe and Japan. Today pundits draw …

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Interview by Hester Lacey
‘I’m open to an afterlife – if a supreme being would like to send a brochure’, says the writer, designer and ‘Grand Designs’ presenter
Kevin McCloud, 53, is the presenter of Channel 4’s Bafta-nominated Grand Designs, now in its 10th series.
What was your earliest ambition?