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A photos-plus-words blog about 118 days spent travelling around South America.

Eventually you have to look around at the alcoholic, poverty-stricken mess you call your life and go, "Hey, I'm not actually doing that well, am I?" This is how you can make a few big leaps forward in becoming a real person.

New technologies may be making us more likely to focus on connections with friends and family, than in searching out new people and perspectives.

The 'golden age' of antibiotics could come to an end unless urgent action is taken. That is the warning from Prof Jeremy Farrar, the new head of Britain's biggest medical research charity the Wellcome Trust, who said it was a "truly global issue".

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The 10 best: Add cardamom, goat's cheese, prunes or sea salt to see your love in a new light

We are letting money addiction drive too much of our society.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

A brief history of the pub, with a note about how free houses differ.

Learn butchery and smallholder skills at the Empire farm, Somerset

Farage is relying on misconceptions about the scale, purpose and outcomes of aid spending to argue for this cynical raid.

A lot of the greatest science fiction and fantasy books are not for newbies. They can be daunting for new readers, because they assume you've already read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. But what are the best "entry level" science fiction and fantasy books? We asked some top editors and writers, and here are…

While we're waiting to see if José Padilha's RoboCop remake is a worthy successor to the original, the folks behind Our RoboCop Remake have beaten Padilha to the punch by releasing their entire feature-length, crowdsourced remake that lovingly spoofs each scene in Paul Verhoeven's film.

Innovation in Tropical Forest Conservation: Q&A with Corey Bradshaw Primary peat forest in Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Much of Dr. Corey Bradshaw’s work has a singular aim: to keep primary habitats and functioning ecosystems intact. According to Bradshaw, the existing system of carbon trading rules needs to be changed so that primary forests […]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Oxfam Careers, Jobs, Search and Apply

Suggested tagline: “Be the goat you want to see in the world.”

Did you inherit your sense of purpose? Or have you cultivated a purpose in your life that's uniquely your own? Here’s a simple litmus test to figure it out.

Alleviate your boredom with our web games, quizzes, LOLs & strong opinions. Distractions and debate to make you (❂‿❂), {ಠ_ಠ} or ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Slavoj Žižek: Mandela must have died a bitter man. To honour his legacy we should focus on the unfulfilled promises his leadership gave rise to

Here's the albums from 2013 I reckon I will listen to again next year

Research suggests that as many as 60% of job vacancies are unadvertised. Here is some advice on how to make sure you’re making the most of the unadvertised job market

The Digital by Default Service Standard has been running as a beta for almost a year now, but formally comes into force in April. Now that we’ve run over 40 assessments, we thought it was time to summarise what we’ve …