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A Point of View: Mourning the loss of the written word
A Point of View: Mourning the loss of the written word The modernist writer Virginia Woolf called letter writing "the human art, which owes its origins in the love of friends". In our frenetic world of electronic communication, we must remember to write with thought and consideration, says historian Lisa Jardine. In these days of email, texts and instant messaging, I am not alone, I feel sure, in mourning the demise of the old-fashioned handwritten letter. Exchanges of letters capture nuances of shared thought and feeling to which their electronic replacements simply cannot do justice. Here's an example. In July 1940, with the country at war, Virginia Woolf published a biography of the artist, Roger Fry - champion of post-impressionism and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group. The timing could hardly have been worse. Fry's reputation was as an ivory tower liberal who believed that art inhabits a self-contained formal space remote from the vulgar ...
Healing rituals and bad spirits on a Philippine island
Healing rituals and bad spirits on a Philippine island By Kate McGeown BBC News, Philippines Islanders gather earth and dust to use in rituals to protect their homes Siquijor is one of more than 7,000 islands in the Philippines - it has tropical sun, white sand and an azure sea, but it is also famous for witchcraft. How do you go about looking for a witch? It is not a question I had ever thought to ask before, so I rang the Siquijor tourism department to see if they were able to help. "We don't have any witches," was the first reply, which did not seem all that promising. But after a bit more discussion, it seems that Siquijor's witches - well, the good ones anyway - have recently undergone a rebranding exercise. They are now called traditional healers. But what about the bad witches, I asked? "Oh we don't promote them," came the rather sensible answer. ...
The dark web: Guns and drugs for sale on the internet's secret black market
The dark web: Guns and drugs for sale on the internet's secret black market By Adrian Goldberg Presenter, 5 live Investigates Out of reach of regular internet searches is the secretive online world known as the 'dark web' - anonymous, virtually untraceable global networks used by political activists and criminals alike. "You have the availability of multiple dealers so you can compare products - and customers can review the dealer's product, too." American student, David - not his real name - explains why he chooses to buy illegal drugs on the so-called 'dark web'. "You don't have to go in front of a street dealer, where there might be a risk of violence," he adds. And it is not just drugs which are available on this online black market. Fake passports, guns - even child pornography. Anonymous drug dealers The dark web is facilitated by a global network of ...
Davos 2012 hails a year of worries
Davos 2012 hails a year of worries By Tim Weber Business editor, BBC News website, Davos Some of the world's richest and most powerful people attend the World Economic Forum When more than 2,600 of the world's richest, cleverest, most powerful, influential or entrepreneurial people are cooped up in a Swiss mountain valley, surely something must come out of it? Call it the curse of high expectations. With a track record like the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) - peace deals struck, political breakthroughs achieved, massive aid projects launched, wars averted, or at least the global agenda set - expectations are high. Against these benchmarks, Davos 2012 felt somewhat flat. Now don't get me wrong. By definition the World Economic Forum can't be boring. There are just too many interesting people here to make it a dull event. Walk 20 yards, chat to four or five people, and you ...
Why do some people never get depressed?
Why do some people never get depressed? By Geoff Watts BBC World Service Confronted with some of life's upsetting experiences - marriage breakdown, unemployment, bereavement, failure of any kind - many people become depressed. But others don't. Why is this? A person who goes through experiences like that and does not get depressed has a measure of what in the psychiatric trade is known as "resilience". According to Manchester University psychologist Dr Rebecca Elliott, we are all situated somewhere on a slidling scale. "At one end you have people who are very vulnerable. In the face of quite low stress, or none at all, they'll develop a mental health problem," she says. "At the other end, you have people who life has dealt a quite appalling hand with all sorts of stressful experiences, and yet they remain positive and optimistic." Most of us, she thinks, are somewhere in the middle. ...