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What Is Philosophy For? A Beautiful Animated Manifesto for Undoing Our Unwisdom, Cultivating Our Character, and Gaining Perspective
What Is Philosophy For? A Beautiful Animated Manifesto for Undoing Our Unwisdom, Cultivating Our Character, and Gaining Perspective

“The points at which our unwisdom bites and messes up our lives are multiple and urgently need attention, right now.”

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Wisdom in the Age of Information and the Importance of Storytelling in Making Sense of the World: An Animated Essay
Wisdom in the Age of Information and the Importance of Storytelling in Making Sense of the World: An Animated Essay

Thoughts on navigating the open sea of knowledge.

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This Land Is Mine: Nina Paley’s Animated History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
This Land Is Mine: Nina Paley’s Animated History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

“A brief history of the land called Israel / Palestine / Canaan / the Levant.”

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A Good Man: Moving Animated Short Film by StoryCorps Tells the Human Stories of LGBT Pride
A Good Man: Moving Animated Short Film by StoryCorps Tells the Human Stories of LGBT Pride

How a moment of utter vulnerability brought together eight siblings torn apart by their father’s bigotry.

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An Animated Ode to What a Dog Can Teach Us About the Meaning of Life
An Animated Ode to What a Dog Can Teach Us About the Meaning of Life

Mastering the art of unselfconscious presence.

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How Repetition Enchants the Brain and the Psychology of Why We Love It in Music
How Repetition Enchants the Brain and the Psychology of Why We Love It in Music

“Music takes place in time, but repetition beguilingly makes it knowable in the way of something outside of time.”

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Allergy to Originality: Mark Twain and the Remix Nature of All Creative Work, Animated
Allergy to Originality: Mark Twain and the Remix Nature of All Creative Work, Animated

Why why all creative culture is built on “plagiarism, literary debt, appropriation, incorporation, retelling, rewriting, recapitulation, revision, reprise…”

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A Breathtaking Animated Adaptation of Bukowski’s “The Man with the Beautiful Eyes”
A Breathtaking Animated Adaptation of Bukowski’s “The Man with the Beautiful Eyes”

A visual interpretation at the intersection of the touching and the haunting.

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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams on How Your Choices Shape the World, Animated
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams on How Your Choices Shape the World, Animated

“Every single thing you do is politics, because the interaction of human beings is politics writ large.”

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How to Move People with Integrity: The Art of Persuasion, Animated
How to Move People with Integrity: The Art of Persuasion, Animated

“Like it or not, we’re all in sales right now… whether we’re teachers or art directors or in healthcare.”

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