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Romanticism

Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the...

06 November, 2016

This is what you really are

To live life in peace, immune to all compulsion. Let them scream whatever they want. Let animals dismember this soft flesh that covers...

31 October, 2016

The Nature of Reality

What is reality? What do we mean when we use the nouns 'reality' and 'truth', and their corresponding adjectives 'real' and 'true'? We...

20 October, 2016

Deciphering cell’s recycling machinery earns Nobel

Figuring out the nuts and bolts of the cell’s recycling machinery has earned the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Cell biologist...

08 October, 2016

As I Began to Love Myself: Charlie Chaplin on his 70th birthday

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my...

26 September, 2016

Go on a News Fast

Negative news sells. In our society, more people will choose to watch the criminal trial of a celebrity rather than the biography of...

13 September, 2016

Too much information kills information

We are incredibly well informed yet we know incredibly little. Why? Because two centuries ago, we invented a toxic form of knowledge called...

12 September, 2016

Savor the Simple Stuff

No one gets to take his possessions with him when he dies. I have yet to see a moving van following a hearse...

06 September, 2016

FOG (Pousi)

The fog fell with the evening -- the lightship lost -- and you arrived unexpected in the pilot-house to see me. You are wearing all white and...

29 August, 2016

Don’t Worry About Things You Can’t Change

Time and again, when I face a challenge in my own life, I return to The Serenity Prayer of Reinhod Neibuhr: “God, give...

26 August, 2016