To see this story with its related links on the guardian.co.uk site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/22/iceland-women After the crash, Iceland’s women lead the rescue Iceland’s spectacular meltdown was caused by a banking and business culture that was buccaneering, reckless – and overwhelmingly male. Business editor Ruth Sunderland travelled to Reykjavik to meet the women now running the [...]

I suffer from hypochondria. Whenever I collapse, fall, forget who I am, I start getting scared. I crumble, turn into a little girl and I am afraid. Really, really afraid that I will get sick and die. The fear takes over, terrible fear that makes me almost unable to function, the fear of death. It [...]

“Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the capacity to maintain a certain process or state. It is now most frequently used in connection with biological and human systems. In an ecological context, sustainability can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future.” This is a definition of sustainability published [...]

Brooks Greene-Barton once told me that the original purpose of psychology was to describe Human’s relationship to God. At the beginning psychology was organized to answer the question of who we are, what is the human existence about, what does it mean to be a human being. Over some hundreds of years this purpose shifted. As [...]

I watched “Anne of the Thousand Days” yesterday, the story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. I actually listened to it more than watched it, I was preparing dinner, TV was on at the other end of the living room. Anne just gave birth to a girl and the terrible drama resulted. I thought: this almost makes me believe in [...]