October 2011
23 posts
Infectious diseases cause chronic inflammation in the blood that, decades later, leads to heart attacks, strokes and cancers - the classic killers of old age. We’re saying that part of the roots of health in old age lie in childhood. That is what makes this study different because we started looking at the person and their living conditions at a much younger age than other studies.
In 2001 singer-songwriter Van Walker moved from the wilds of Tasmania to the Melbourne big smoke intent on following a long dormant musical ambition. He formed The Swedish Magazines in 2003 who released their critically acclaimed debut album, Eat More Baby in 2005 (AGE four star Album of…
September 2011
20 posts
Today we need philosophy with the same existential urgency that we always have—and to effectively connect with eager audiences, I believe philosophical ideas will benefit from being “packaged” in the most compulsively watchable and infectiously shareable forms of our time. In fact, I would update what Leary said. If Aristotle were alive today, he’d be a digital nomad, spitting heady dialogue into his Flip cam or iPhone, and sharing it on YouTube, all while globetrotting the world to feed his wanderlust. Taking advantage of the proliferation of short-form media, I’m working to put out bite-sized bursts of inspired thinking meant to “epiphanize” (or at the very least, engage and inspire). I’m interested in the audio/visual mashup as the re-organization of media bits to reveal something new.
