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The Three Elements of the Good Life
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To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every...
Heed Your Daemon: Rudyard Kipling on Writing
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It is worth remembering that anything worth doing, anything bound to earn...
Eight Takes: How to Tell a Truer Love Story
5 days ago
“Mistake” is another word for a working draft we are unable or...
The Measure of a True Visionary: Jane Goodall on the Indivisibility of Art and Science
7 days ago
The aim of science is to illuminate the mysteries of nature and...
The Feather Detective: How Roxie Laybourne Pioneered Forensic Ornithology
8 days ago
You wouldn’t know it, looking at the tiny elderly woman in the...
The Cell vs. the Crystal: The Philosopher-Naturalist John Burroughs on What Makes a Great Poem and a Great Person
10 days ago
A person is a perpetual ongoingness perpetually mistaking itself for a still...
Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are
13 days ago
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best...
How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo
15 days ago
Pressed between the pages of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — a favorite...
Ode to a Good Pen: Or, How to Write the Book of Love
18 days ago
I spent the summer using the fantastic binomial technique developed by Gianni...
The Heart of the Andes and the Invention of Virtual Reality: Frederic Edwin Church’s Immersive 19th-century Paintings of Natural Wonders
22 days ago
In the spring of 1859, as On the Origin of Species was...
The Coziest Place on the Moon: An Illustrated Fable about How to Live with Loneliness and What It Means to Love, Inspired by a Real NASA Discovery
26 days ago
On July 26, 2022, as I was living through a period of...
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success
27 days ago
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance… To...