What is it to be human? Ask any human and get a different answer. Our culture tells us one thing, our history another, our religions tell one story, our biology another. A human can be a hunter-gatherer, a data scientist, a pilot. We can live in desert tents, travelling wagons, city apartments.. We can live in tiny villages or enormous…
What? Take away our food, our water, our daylight, but leave us our phones! At the Festival of Big Ideas we will ask you to turn off your phones during the day. This is not because we think phones are evil or that the internet is bad, but simply because we’re coming together…to be together. You can catch up with…
Everyone is free to believe what they think is true. You’re welcome to come to the festival whatever your political or religious beliefs. But we draw the line at fundamental religious belief (“our way the only way!”) and conspiracy theories (“we know the truth that they don’t want you to know!”). Why? For one thing, both religious fundamentalists and conspiracy…
