Thought Bites

We all go along with general ideas about how to live our lives. Often we fall into step with the expectations of other people or subconsciously assume without question the values, ideas and interpretations conveyed by the Mass Media.  Thought Bites is about presenting new ideas that challenge, set the record straight or break through generalisations and biased social representations by offering a platform for the saying things otherwise ignored, drowned out or not previously thought about. 


We want to push the limits of understanding. To some extent, understanding is a moving target as our environments change and our cultures and social systems evolve and transform. Communication can arouse deeper levels of shared awareness of the inescapable wonder of our existence and a sense of calling to do the right thing to ensure social and environmental sustainability on our planet home.

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Niccolo Machiavelli - an interview with Prof. Henry Tam

In this interview, Prof. Henry Tam, Director of the Forum for Youth Participation and Democracy at the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University, talks about the philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli and its popular interpretations. He explains aspects of Machiavelli's thinking with reference to Queen Elizabeth I, Abraham Lincoln, the American civil war and the abolition of slavery; the Hiroshima bombing, civil republican virtue, public resistance to the Vietnam war, army conscription, and the ethics of corporate governance.