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The Hidden Price of Mindfulness Inc.
As the practice of mindfulness is packaged and peddled, it’s hard not to wonder if something essential is being lost. By David Gelles.
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What It’s Like to Almost Get Executed
San Quentin inmate Kevin Cooper on watching the minutes tick away on his life.
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A Professor’s Memoir of Life Inside a Ravaged Body
Many narratives of disability convey uplifting messages of hardship overcome. Christina Crosby instead focusses, in brutal detail, on the pain she has suffered. By Michael M. Weinstein.
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Why doesn’t physics help us to understand the flow of time?
From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics? By Gene Tracy.
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Preparing for a Beautiful End
Josiah Neufeld writes about a couple preparing for the end. (Jan ’15)
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Why does philosophy hold clothes in such low regard?
Clothes can be forms of thought as articulate as a poem or equation. Why then does philosophy like to dress them down? By Shahidha Bari. (May 19, 2016)
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“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night”
Extract from ‘Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London’ by Matthew Beaumont. (Apr. 2016)
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The mind isn’t locked in the brain but extends far beyond it
Where is your mind? Where does your thinking occur? Where are your beliefs? By Keith Frankish.
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Night Moves
Preserving the Sublime at One of the Darkest Places in America. By Amanda Petrusich.
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Appleton [Wisconsin] teen makes heartbreaking decision to die
Jerika Bolen, who turned 14 just before Christmas, has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, an incurable genetic disease that often claims lives before adolescence. By Jim Collar.
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How ‘The Land of the Stars’ Shaped Astronomy (and Me)
In the mountains and deserts of the Middle East, the region's role in shaping our modern view of the cosmos quickly comes into focus. By Nadia Drake.
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Cloud and Field: On the resurgence of “field guides” in a networked age
We’ve moved from birding to dronewatching, from natural history to dark ecology. But are we still looking through colonialist binoculars? By Shannon Mattern.
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Water Odyssey
Morgan Maassen
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Making House: Notes on Domesticity
A home is something both looked at and lived in, but that duality can be difficult to reconcile. By Rachel Cusk.
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I was stranded in the wilderness for nine days
I had lost so much weight that I looked like walking skeleton. I was ready to give up. By Ann Rodgers. (Aug. 12, 2016)
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The open mind
The most vivid part of the mind bubbles up through sensation and new experience when unencumbered by analytical thought. By Daniel J. Siegel.
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Paralysed people inhabit distant robot bodies with thought alone
Using a head-up display and a cap that reads brain activity, for the first time three people with spinal injury have controlled a robot and seen what it sees. By Helen Thomson.
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An Ode to the Imperfect, 21st-Century American Cabin
The author, feeling hemmed in by the city, buys a secluded wilderness retreat. But are there any truly wild places left to escape to? And what exactly are we seeking when we head into the woods? By Kenneth R. Rosen.
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On Nostalgia
“I suspect that my father made a choice, and it meant concealing the past in order to live, with presence, in the present.” By Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.
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Intimate Pictures Show Cuba Through the Eyes of Its Youth
Days before Fidel Castro’s death, National Geographic Photo Camp asked students in Havana what it means to be Cuban. This was their response. By Kirsten Elstner.
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