Steve went out and fired a 69 on the course but ended up losing money to a ringer! Knudson’s game is in rough shape. We talk about this slow play thing trickling down to club members and juniors. Check out the full podcast on SoundCloud below, or click here to listen on iTunes or here to listen on…
Read moreWhy Indigenous people are more vulnerable to mental health problems?
So this is a timely moment to reflect on one of the most pressing of those challenges – the fact that indigenous peoples are significantly more likely to experience mental health problems than majority populations. The vulnerability of indigenous peoples in relation to mental ill-health was highlighted in a recent report by the UN Special…
Read moreBitter dispute erupts over Bryson DeChambeau’s slow play at The Northern Trust, resulting in personal insults, apologies and a review of the current pace-of-play policy
The heated dispute concerning slow play over the weekend at The Northern Trust spilled over into Monday in what has been arguably the fiercest and most bitter debate on the subject that the sport has yet seen. In case you missed it, on Friday at Liberty National, Bryson DeChambeau was caught on camera taking over…
Read moreIt’s not the concert that’s important, it’s the consciousness
My life is lived at the intersection of philanthropy and social change. I hear a lot about ‘movements’ but society doesn’t seem to be moving in the right direction. 50 years ago at Woodstock, the rallying cry of a generation fresh off a seemingly successful campaign of civil rights for Black Americans was ‘no more…
Read moreForum Thread of the Day: “Jason Day splits with Steve Williams after two months”
Today’s Forum Thread of the Day concerns the split between Jason Day and caddie Steve Williams. The pair have decided to part ways after working together for two months, with Day describing their relationship as “a disconnect of old school and new school”, and our members have been discussing the split and giving their thoughts on…
Read moreHow capitalism exploits our fear of old age
So I’ll be out in public, maybe ordering coffee, and someone I don’t know will address me as “sweetie.” I’m a 60-year-old woman, and I look my age. Because people haven’t called me “sweetie” since I was about 5, I’m thinking this is an age thing. That seems more obvious when a stranger ironically addresses…
Read moreBanning a burqa that doesn't exist – the cowardice of Dutch politics and the courage of those who resist
It took the Dutch government fourteen years to implement the ‘Burqa Ban.’ First passed in 2005 by a majority in the Lower House, it then failed to pass constitutional muster. Multiple revisions and multiple governing coalitions later, it finally was confirmed by both houses of parliament. Now it has come into force. Western Europe has…
Read moreUsing courage, and one’s privilege, to counter racial profiling in Moscow
Racial and ethnic profiling by the Moscow police is a problem so old that it’s simply not news. But rarely do you catch police acknowledging it on camera. Alexander Kim did just that. Kim told me that he was walking through an underground passage in southern Moscow on 20 July when he saw several police…
Read moreTurkey does imperialism: Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East
This article is part of ourEconomy's 'Decolonising the economy' series. The world capitalist system is characterised by hierarchies among countries, which both stem from and reproduce uneven economic development. In this sense, the world economy can be considered imperialistic. Located at the periphery of global capitalism, Turkey has long had dependent economic, political, and military…
Read moreManolo a Bologna: la serata Eravamo immortali per Sportfund
Mercoledì 7 novembre 2018 Manolo, alias Maurizio Zanolla, sarà a Bologna ospite di Sportfund per la serata ‘Eravamo immortali, storie, libere arrampicate e passioni di una vita.’ Conduce la serata Vinicio Stefanello di PlanetMountain.com Uno dei più celebri protagonisti dell’arrampicata sarà ospite di Sportfund fondazione per lo sport Onlus mercoledì 7 novembre a Bologna per…
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