Thursday, January 18, 2007

COLORS of the world

A few months ago when I was in Australia, my cousin introduced me to a magazine. Not just any magazine though, but a "quarterly magazine that focuses on cultural topics from around the world." COLORS. Hands down, it's [my opinion] the best magazine! The second I picked them up I was taken over by interest; I read all three of them in a short matter of time. Every article in COLORS presents information to the reader and makes them think. It provides the reader with a look at the world, through different cultures, tackling one topic for each quartly magazine in different manners. Featured topics include Drugs (Iss. 62), Lust (Iss. 67), HIV/AIDS (Iss. 64), Photostudios (Iss. 58), Violence (Iss. 56), and Fat (Iss. 25), to name a few. Every topic provides an entire magazine worth of articles, each intriguing, each unique, set with vivid, colorful images that captivates the reader!

Issue 62, "Drugs," contained stories of "Coffee, A Social History," "Sacred Plants," "Body-Enhancing Drugs," "Fighting AIDS in Brazil," "Kicking the Habit on Mount Purgatory," and "Your Brain on Love" [just to show you how they tackle drugs as a broad subject, and not just as a recreational drug that we all would think of it as -- precisely why this magazine is so fascinating]. Although all the articles intrigue me, there was one that has stuck to me like glue. It's the shortest of the rest of the articles and it was found on the last page of this issue, Your Brain on Love.

Could a drug to deactivate hate be far behind? And could everyone in the world be convinced to take it simultaneously?

What do you think...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Perhaps someday somebody will discover a drug to eliminate the wordly hate that so many of us harbor. I have full confidence that someday, someone will be able to do it.

Funny hearing that from someone named "love me or hate me", but my screen name actually comes from the Lady Sovereign song of the same name. If more people didn't worry about what everyone else thought about them, maybe there wouldn't be so much hatred going around, and we wouldn't necessarily need a drug for it. However, since that will never happen, I hope someone finds the "cure" soon...

P.S. That magazine article was pretty cool. I liked the brain logo thingy on the right!