- 3 Minutes with Michel de Montaigne
- A poem on Vespers (End of August)
- A Quick and Dirty Snapshot of Marcel Proust
- Alan watts on the length of life
- Alex Steffen on how Optimism is a political act.
- All of Life is Practice
- Billy Collins on how no man is lonely while eating spaghetti
- Billy Collins on the arbitrary distinction between revision and writing
- Blum against the boundaries of any single destiny
- Carl Sagan on the dumbing down of America and how science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking
- Carolina Busta on the Internet
- Carry on: an epitaph to a bag
- Chodron on the wisdom of no escape and story of a woman running away from tigers
- Culture is to society as style is to the individual
- Daniel Coyle on The Talent Code: Greatness isn’t born, it’s grown.
- Daniel J. Levitin on Organization: Chapter 1
- David Foster Wallace on default-settings
- Dean Kissick on Virtual Pleasure
- Diogenes, the Original Minimalist, on Minimalism
- Einstein’s Three Rules of Work
- Eric Fromm on how love is primarily giving, not receiving
- Expanding our limits by learning a language
- Fear and Circumstance in Las Vegas
- Frame control on why gun control is political in the U.S.A
- Guillaume Wolf on How to Create the Future
- Henry Miller on the mystery of attention
- I’ve decided on Tolstoy’s Decision Making Matrix
- John Cleese and “Beer Mode”
- Justin Murphy on The Improvement Illusion
- Kahneman and Tversky on their Prospect Theory
- Kay Redfield Jamison on The intensity of exuberance
- Kevin P. Hand on Oceans and Airport Security
- Kierkegaard on expression, irony, and humor
- Klaus Fuchs on secrets on the American atomic project
- Knausgaard on the zeitgeist
- Larkin’s Poetry Of Departures
- Legasov, the soviet chemist, said that to be a scientist is to be naive
- Me on a Creator
- Me on Pleasure
- Me on Surveilling Surveillance
- Milken Review on Airline Deregulation
- Nora Taylor on her fear of octopi
- Oak Ridge on radioactive mist
- Oliver Burkeman by way of Joseph Goldstein on Generosity
- Omar Khayyam, Wise Guy, on Wise Living
- On the nuclear exercise “Snowball” (Снежок)?
- On the secret closed city, озёрск / Ozersk
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder on Harvest
- Polachek, Hegel, Boulanger on Music
- Pulitzer Prize winners Will and Ariel Durant on the lessons of history
- Pythagoras on Beans and Hepatia on Oyster Shells
- Recommendations to impress your cat with: photos of Colette
- Robert Hayden’s poem “American Journal”
- Robin Williams on rich temptations
- The Action Movie Fairy Tale
- The Etymological Compendium on why it’s odious to slap your fools
- The Fermi Paradox on the Great Silence
- The Gallery Inn
- The Great Mathematician Paul Erdős on Possessions and Coffee
- The Marriage of Romeo & Juliet by Death (1967-1975) by Salvador Dali
- The only difference between the Surrealists and me is that I am a Surrealist – Salvador Dalí
- The U.S. on how to lose a nuclear weapon
- The Uppsala University on a New Way of Measuring Time
- Thomas Rid on ChatGPT in the classroom
- Twain on the Safe Harbor
- Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic
- Wages in Cuba and a quote from my former Professor of Latin American Politics
- What Charles Bukowski didn’t say
- What I love is blue
- Whistler’s “Nocturne: Blue and Gold…” is melodious and harmonious
- Yeltsin’s close nuclear call
- Yordi As Seen By Yordi
- Zweig on Memory
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