Must I Mask?

Is wearing a mask a moral obligation or a mark of conformism? A dialogue on the nature of individual choice and social responsibility

Would you slaughter the lamb?

Imagine a situation where you have two options: to prepare a dish that satisfies your hunger and does not include (or contain) animals...

Where Love Lies: Heart, Body & Soul

Love lies in ties – it comes alive in bond, but dies in binding. A conversation about separateness, and connection.

What’s in an Un-Naming?

Should we remove names of controversial figures from public sites? Is un-naming a chosen, collective amnesia or a teaching moment?

What Makes Us Human?

Six students in an open conversation connecting morality to mortality, freedom to alienation and religion to love, building a human ZenTower

Memories, a Reminder

Can we kindle and keep an eternal flame? A celestial, earthly, journey to a pre-apocalyptic world

Can You Sit Quietly in a Room Alone?

A generation of technologically-enhanced loneliness should have prepared us well for social distancing. It hasn’t.

If Covid were a person, what would you ask him?

Covid invites us to project upon it our own experiences and expectations, our fears and hopes, providing the perfect template to experiment

The Decameron. On our need for stories in order to live

The Decameron: How to get away with a quarantine? On our need for stories in order to live

Pangolin is the new Lenin

A random pangolin might have been more successful at triggering the questioning of capitalistic ideas than Lenin

How much is the human life worth to a government?

I have the impression of living in Albert Camus’ landmark 1947 novel La Peste. More than 70 years later, it appears that the situation we ar

Preventing the Next Virus Outbreak

The Coronavirus plague is the outcome of both the sale of wildlife and the living conditions of the animals - we should address both if we w