Headline & Editorial
Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Wine in evolution
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeLike coffee, wine has travelled a long way down the corridors of time and space, reaching far and distant lands from its place of origin. A cornerstone and source of wealth of many a civilisation along the course of history, it is a catalyst of social exchange like few others. Wine-making knowledge is extensive and manifold, for it entails knowing ...
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Magazine -> #22 KaizenEver since it was first used in management theory, the Japanese concept, kaizen, has intrigued me. So much so that, before gladly applying it in our company, more than fifteen years ago, I went to Japan to study it “on site” at Toyota, where the term was first seriously applied. There I was able to appreciate how efficient it is and see how thi...
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Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”, wrote the philosopher Blaise Pascal. People once thought that emotions and rational thought travelled along parallel lines that never converged. Philosophers and scientists dismissed emotions as being of little interest - they were believed to hamper rational behaviour. But for some ti...
continue..Rough Guide to the future
Magazine -> #25 InnovageThere are travel guides for almost any corner of the planet. None of these can tell us though what the world will be like tomorrow, or at least not until next year. That’s when Rough Guide to the Future by the British science writer Jon Turney will be available in bookstores. What drove you to write such a book? There’s not much fiction aro...
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