Articles

With the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster still haunting Southeast Asia, Vision looks at other potential trouble spots on the earth's fragile surface.

Things are not always as they first appear. It’s easy to be taken in by outward appearances.

The UN says the ongoing tragedy in Darfur is one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world today. Aid workers and analysts talk to Vision about the crisis.

During the last couple of decades, there has been an upsurge in the numbers of IDPs. By 1995 there were an estimated 20–25 million.

The world’s attention has been drawn to what’s happening in Darfur, with a global outcry from humanitarian organizations, government leaders and media.

Besides the estimated 2.4 million IDPs in Darfur, at least 200,000 Darfuri refugees have crossed the Sudanese border and are living in Chad. What’s the difference between the two designations?

Increasing numbers of DNA-based patents are being applied for on a daily basis. Vision examines some of the implications of the battle over who owns life.

How can life in all its varied forms be defined as a human creation for the purpose of granting patents when it is freely given as a gift from God?

Many in the biotech industry say that patenting will boost research, while probably just as many think it will have an adverse effect.

Many believe that if living things can be patented, life is reduced to a mere commodity.

When a company gets a patent on a biological product, it has monopoly rights and can charge any price it wants for that product.

Arguments in favor of life patenting.

Vision publisher David Hulme interviews Charles A. Pasternak, a noted British biochemist and the founding director of the Oxford International Biomedical Centre.

Vision speaks with cosmologist Sir Martin Rees, Britain’s Astronomer Royal, about the main threats facing humanity.

People will believe almost anything, it seems, despite the availability of credible and feasible alternatives.

The Da Vinci Code—love it or hate it—has achieved the status of a phenomenon. Why should a novel generate such a torrent of debate?

A fisherman observes some of the intricacies of life as he matches wits with finicky fish. Can fly fishermen teach us a lesson on life?

A biblical work ethic was a fundamental building block of the Industrial Revolution, but have we lost sight of how work should factor into our lives?

Too many people derive little or no satisfaction from their work. So what does it take to achieve lasting fulfillment in our employment?

Author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber had a significant role in shaping 20^th-century political and social concepts.