This is some material from a recent Freakonomics podcast. It seems relevant to our recent discussion about whether having a uniform societ...

From the discussion: Do we need a uniform society to have a functional democracy? —Okay, before we start the discussion, I have a question...

Here are some points we made during our last democracy discussion: (Boaty McBoatface) I want to talk about the things we mentioned and br...

What is emotional labor, and why do we have to do it? Previously at the RO Studio we discussed this concept in relation to paid jobs where ...

So, coming across this article about hygge (please don't ask me how to pronounce it, I really don't know) in The Guardian suddenly...

Esther Perel asks so many good questions in this TED talk. Also, it's a very good example of storytelling! She gets her points across ...

Let's talk narcissism, or more specifically, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). This is a little-understood pattern of behaviour ...

We’ve talked about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs before. It’s a theory that in order to actualise our selves, or become fully-alive human bei...

So Odinsblog on tumblr imagined what it might be like if every person in their country had a guaranteed basic income (UBI). I would like ...

Last week we got into a side discussion on the differences between male and female friendship. I looked into English media on the topic and...

Limits are boundaries. A boundary is a marker between two different states of being. Tonight we're going to explore the boundaries of...

It could be argued that Taiwan's culture today is a product of many years of colonization. This book “How Taiwan Became Chinese” discu...