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The intensity of exuberance
In group celebrations we find exuberance differently. A love of festivities is universal, observed William James, and in many respects celebration is yet another form of human play.
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We call it the zeitgeist
All of this is part of a shared space, it is what we call the zeitgeist, the spirit of the time, which is also what we express ourselves through.
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Here is a story of a woman running away from tigers
Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life, it might be the only strawberry we’ll ever eat.
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Culture is to society as style is to the individual
An answer to the sterile ends of pure utility and the cold-heartedness of a survival mindset.
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Relearning how to think according to David Foster Wallace
I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about “teaching you how to think” is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea:
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Do you remember when we talked about…?
Now Greif does not grieve as much as I about the warning sign he nailed onto the hedonist storeroom of memories that live rent-free in my mind. He insists this habit of happiness-by-experience results in “a life of permanent dissatisfaction and a compulsion to frenetic activity.”
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The past woven into the present
Our lives are made up of so many people who become parts of our lives and like lines from your favorite book, some parts of them remain long after they leave. And in the same exact way, it’s comforting to know there are so many lives you’re still a part of that you have no […]
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How to lose a nuclear weapon
Despite an extensive search, not a single trace of the crew nor the plane nor the cores has ever been found.
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Do you know about the nuclear exercise “Snowball” or Снежок?
In the days after, Soviet scientists’ reports detailed the impact of the nuclear blast on everything: vegetation, animals, shelters, vehicles, houses. And a small part on human lives.
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Oak Ridge’s radioactive mist
Swim naked in the local lake with Oak Ridge native Megan Fox, the mist caressing both of their faces would be radioactive.
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Yeltsin’s close nuclear call
It’s January 25, 1995 and you’re President Boris Yeltsin activating the “nuclear briefcase”.
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Billy Collins on the arbitrary distinction between revision and writing
And when I revise, I’m writing, aren’t I?
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Weeklinks – Edition 3
This week’s links on creativity, social media, distractions, tips on writing and drawing, art, Lady Lilith, and Max Ernst. PLUS! Unusual inspiration for unusual times.
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Sunday Showcase: Expansion by Paige Bradley
The Sunday Showcase, not to be confused with “The Sunday Scaries”, literally zooms in on a piece of artwork and shares videos and/or quotes from the artist.
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Yordi As Seen By Yordi: #1 in an interview series
This is the first “interview” (it’s very short, only a few quotes from each conversation) with friends and family members who are Deaf. My 25 year-old brother, Yordi, is using photography as a way to escape from his three other roommates, not counting the kitten and the Dalmatian, all of which are Deaf, except for […]
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The Great Mathematician Paul Erdős on Possessions and Coffee
Between scientific conferences, universities, and the homes of colleagues all over the world.
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The only difference between the Surrealists and me is that I am a Surrealist – Salvador Dalí
The Temptation of St. Anthony (detail), 1946 Oil on Canvas, 89.5 x 119.5 cm (35 1/4 x 47 in.) Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
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What Charles Bukowski didn’t say
Charles Bukowski didn’t say you should find what you love and let it kill you.
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Fear and Circumstance in Las Vegas
Place yourself in circumstances of want, and ask yourself, “is this what I fear?
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Wages in Cuba and a quote from my former Professor of Latin American Politics
Ending the dual-currency system is expected to lead to the eventual removal of subsidies and bankruptcy.
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Nuclear incidents in the 1950s
Nothing is known of attempts to recover the nuclear weapon and presumably it is still in the ocean.
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Soviet Spy Klaus Fuchs
…not until 1949 that decrypted cables from the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS)’s “Venona” project revealed Fuchs was a Soviet spy.
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озёрск / Ozersk
Those in paradise were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
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The Modus Operandi of Abusive Relationships
“I make a sketch of the person” said Mr. K., “and make sure that one comes to resemble the other.”
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Vulnerability in Russian is уязвимость*
So preoccupied your body starts accumulating bruises, scratches, sprains.
