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This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life
This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life

Revisiting the tragic literary hero’s only public insights on life.

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No Dream-Laden Adolescent: Anaïs Nin Meets Young Gore Vidal, 1945
No Dream-Laden Adolescent: Anaïs Nin Meets Young Gore Vidal, 1945

“Like all writers, he dreams of total acceptance, unanimous love. A dream.”

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What Actually Happens While You Sleep and How It Affects Your Every Waking Moment
What Actually Happens While You Sleep and How It Affects Your Every Waking Moment

“We are living in an age when sleep is more comfortable than ever and yet more elusive.”

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Bukowski on Living Fully
Bukowski on Living Fully

“It’s the only good fight there is.”

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6 Rules for Creative Sanity from Radical Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich
6 Rules for Creative Sanity from Radical Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich

“Never yield to the expediencies of life except where it is basically harmless.”

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Why We Cry: The Science of Sobbing and Emotional Tearing
Why We Cry: The Science of Sobbing and Emotional Tearing

Why it’s easier to prevent a crying spell than to stop one already underway.

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The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity
The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity

“Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view… We are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower ones together.”

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Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion
Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion

“Color itself is a degree of darkness.”

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Risk Intelligence, the Art of Uncertainty, and the Flawed Psychology of Airport Security
Risk Intelligence, the Art of Uncertainty, and the Flawed Psychology of Airport Security

What the TSA has to do with Rilke and the boundaries of knowledge.

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The Science of Sleep: Dreaming, Depression, and How REM Sleep Regulates Negative Emotions
The Science of Sleep: Dreaming, Depression, and How REM Sleep Regulates Negative Emotions

“Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation. Dream images are the product of that creation.”

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