We often have a choice between doing what we know is right, and doing what will gratify or benefit ourselves (even at the expense of others). So, why be good?

Is it pace of movement? Does it depend on the way others around you move? Should sprinters be required to wear a helmet if speed and congestion are criteria?

Because I believe that talking about death can be life-changing and life-affirming.

Loneliness is something that I have been grappling with lately, and I have noticed an up-tick in think-pieces about technologies effect on social relationships between people and a loss of community. The connections people have with others has been a perennial interest of humankind.

I don’t believe it is considered enough. I believe the soul is at the core of what makes us beings, but we seem to shy away from treating our souls with tenderness and significance.

Australia has had several significant waves of migration (eg. Greeks, Vietnamese, Africans). Each wave coincides with which group mainstream Australia directs it’s vitriol, fear mongering and racism. But the targeting of Islam has been particularly intense.

This matters to me as a daughter of migrant parents, and a mother of bi-racial kids, who simply wants them to grow up in a world free of racial and religious judgement.

Despite our better judgement we all seem to be attracted to someone who is so clearly not right for us at some point in our lives.

The state’s involvement in economics, our system of interventionism, breed further and further control over individual lives, liberty and freedom. It matters to me as I’m a producer constantly paying higher and higher taxes, and losing more and more of my freedoms. It should matter to anyone who values freedom and liberty.

I need to know, and so does the whole of humanity. What exciting ramifications might come from an affirmative?

For Cheryl Strayed. Getting started might be an impulse. From there to the finish requires something else.

I’ve been thinking about automated vehicles lately and wondering if, in order for visions of their ideal function are to be realised, cities/societies will need to change wholesale – rather than incrementing as people slowly adopt new technologies/models.

Is it about anything beyond entitlement?

We largely ignore the thoughts and ideas of children, when they are active participants in their cities and towns. Children have their own culture, and histories. They have more time to observe, make lateral connections, and have a heightened sensory perception. They have such valuable input and are shamefully undervalued in conversations, which have a direct impact on their environment. I fear that the absence of their voices in the planning and analysis of our social infrastructure is to our detriment as a society.