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The Healing Power of Gardens
Even for people who are deeply disabled neurologically, nature can be more powerful than any medication. By Oliver Sacks.
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Maximum Alienness
What might make life hard to recognize as life? By Caleb A. Scharf.
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How These Animals Stay Forever Young
A handful of species have seemingly avoided the aging process. By Erica Tennenhouse.
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Lewis Carroll’s Adventures in Russia
"Dodgson had taken a travelling chess set with him, which proved a boon on some of their long train journeys; he also recorded his first impression of Moscow as 'bulging gilded domes, in which you see as in a looking-glass distorted pictures of the city.'” By Mark Davies.
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Desiring to desire
Adam Bales reviews a book by Agnes Callard that examines the mystery of desire and aspiration, arguing that aspiration is dualistic, and inextricable from desire.
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Seven Seas
Echo and the Bunnymen
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The Preciousness of Time
A Stephen Hawking Tribute
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Our dreams have many purposes, changing across the lifespan
Dreams accompany us literally from the cradle to the grave. By Patrick McNamara.
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Beauty in Blackwater
While most photographers are tucked in bed, this sharpshooter dons dive gear and searches for his subjects at the ocean’s surface, in the black of night. By Michael Patrick O’Neill.
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Stanley Kubrick's Unbelievable Answer to the Question, "Is Life Worth Living?"
If this is the last thing you ever read, it will be worth it. By Jordan Bates.
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The Ecstasy of Error: Green Cards in Magonia
“Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?” — William James. By Aaron Dabbah.
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Between Everywhere and Nowhere
A little review of travel literature. By Bernd Brunner.
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Spring
Jamie Scott
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Eulogy for a Fairy Princess
On Wednesday, my girlfriend died. She was an artist who lived in Providence, Rhode Island. She was 41 years old. By Lisa Williams.
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Wanderers
Erik Wernquist
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Homo Faber
Discovering the infinite universe. By Lewis H. Lapham.
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Anomalistic Beer Goggles: The Consequences of Doubt
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge” – Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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