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Existential Riddles
Q: Which is heavier, a ton of feathers or a ton of gold? A: Everything is equal in a cruelly indifferent universe. By Ethan Kuperberg.
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Ridley Scott's Masterpiece 'Alien'
Nothing Is as Terrifying as the Fear of the Unknown.
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Neoliberalism is creating loneliness. That’s what’s wrenching society apart
Epidemics of mental illness are crushing the minds and bodies of millions. It’s time to ask where we are heading and why. By George Monbiot.
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How Einstein and Schrödinger Conspired to Kill a Cat
The rise of fascism shaped Schrödinger’s cat fable. By David Kaiser.
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The Rio You Didn’t Know Existed
Vincent Catala Represents the City Beyond Clichés. Breaking News: Rio de Janeiro is not all sun, parties and samba.
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The Chase in the Ghost Train
Yann Kornowicz
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American Idiot
Green Day
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Spiritual Blackout in America: Election 2016
The rule of Big Money and its attendant culture of cupidity and mendacity have led to our grand moment of spiritual blackout. By Cornel West.
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What Was the Nerd?
The myth of the bullied white outcast loner is helping fuel a fascist resurgence. By Willie Osterweil.
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How Will Our Religions Handle the Discovery of Alien Life?
What would your priest, rabbi, or imam say if we discovered alien life? By David A. Weintraub.
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Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” By Maria Popova.
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Cairo Without End
In his quiet film In the Last Days of the City, Tamer El Said brilliantly captures a struggle I’ve had for years: how to pin down what it is about Cairo that leaves us feeling as if we exist in a no man’s land, somewhere between past and present, constantly searching, never quite there. By Yasmine El Rashidi.
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The Embers
Vagabon
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Are You Lost In The World Like Me?
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir
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How to Cross a Field of Snow
A primer for reconnoitering the unknown. By Robert Moor.
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Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese
The stories have become all too familiar in Japan, though people often do their best to ignore them. An elderly or middle-aged person, usually a man, is found dead, at home in his apartment, frequently right in his bed. It has been days, weeks, or even months... By Amos Zeeberg.
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What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
They did or said something awful, and made something great. They are monster geniuses, and I don’t know what to do about them. By Claire Dederer.
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The Malignant Melancholy
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master. By Amba Azaad.
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Can Europe’s new xenophobes reshape the continent?
From Poland to Austria and Hungary, a new nationalism and hostility to migrants are rife. What does the spread of ‘illiberalism’ mean for the rest of Europe? By Philip Oltermann.
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A syndrome stranger than sci-fi – how limbs can get a mind of their own
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