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The Single Best Piece of Advice on the Creative Life

The Single Best Piece of Advice on the Creative Li...

9 months ago 22

The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life

The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration...

9 months ago 24

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for ...

9 months ago 24

A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season

A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist ...

9 months ago 25

Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cure Our Propensity for Self-Deception

Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cu...

9 months ago 26

Love Anyway

Love Anyway

9 months ago 24

The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You and Your Childhood Self the Same Person Despite a Lifetime of Change

The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You a...

9 months ago 28

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Anti...

9 months ago 24

Traversal: Proteins, Poetry, Blue, and Our Search for Meaning

Traversal: Proteins, Poetry, Blue, and Our Search ...

9 months ago 28

How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe

How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended H...

9 months ago 31

The Most Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled

The Most Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: Wil...

9 months ago 29

James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe

James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest ...

9 months ago 30

The Light Between Us

The Light Between Us

9 months ago 25

Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak

Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Rel...

9 months ago 24

The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laure...

9 months ago 29

Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

9 months ago 22

When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and Spirituality

When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of ...

9 months ago 27

Immortality in Passing: Poet Lisel Mueller, Who Lived to 96, on What Gives Meaning to Our Ephemeral Lives

Immortality in Passing: Poet Lisel Mueller, Who Li...

9 months ago 23