Why is yoghurt the best extinguishing agent when your tongue is on fire with chili peppers? That was the question that Swedish inventor Mats Nilsson asked himself when he was looking for a healthy alternative for flame retardants.

Years ago, American neurologist David Perlmutter discovered an interesting connection among his patients. He determined that many of his patients with neurological problems also showed symptoms of stomach and intestinal problems.

In 1880—four years after he had invented the telephone—Alexander Graham Bell created another invention that he himself considered his greatest. Today, almost 140 years later, that invention stands to change the Internet and the online world that we know in profound ways.

“Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the future consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histories for future flowering.”

At one point in his career, Zach Bush, MD was so disillusioned with medicine, with his inability to understand the real causes of disease and to make his patients fundamentally healthier, that he decided to extend his training to hospice care. He felt he could really help people ease into the process of dying. Helping people through the death transition, he experienced death as not just an end.

It is a secret, oncologists rarely share with their patients: Around 25 percent of all cancers are currently considered untreatable, and the prognosis is worse for colon (colorectal) and lung cancers, with half of these immune to chemotherapy.

Edward was a successful businessman with companies on both the East and West coasts of the United States. He would meet with his accountants and add columns of numbers immediately in his head before the accountants could do so on their calculators. As he approached 60, however, he began to have memory problems. One day at the gym, he panicked when he forgot the combination to his locker, and his lock had to be cut.

The print edition of KAMP SOLUTIONS magazine presents a major innovation. It provides a solution to some of the biggest environmental challenges people and planet face. The story of the production of this magazine will change the way you think about paper and it will introduce you to inspiring opportunities to regenerate nature and reverse global warming as well as to groundbreaking business opportunities that will revolutionize the packaging industry.

Economist Stephanie Kelton argues for a radical shift in economic thinking to better deal with crucial challenges societies face—from poverty and inequality to creating jobs and reversing global warming.

There are two stories about the origins of modern money. One is the story as most of us know it: Money started as shells to facilitate barter between, say, fishermen and farmers.

Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Jurriaan Kamp spoke with the editor of the book, environmentalist, entrepreneur and activist Paul Hawken who is also the author of Blessed Unrest, Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce.

For three decades, I have been documenting the lives of the Ju/’hoansi people of the north-western Kalahari, and their often-traumatic encounter with modernity. The Ju/’hoansi are perhaps the best known of the handful of societies who still sustained themselves by hunting and gathering well into the 20th century. And to them, very little about the relentlessly expanding global economy makes sense.