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When the Sky Is No More Than Remembered Light: Mark Strand Reads His Poignant Poem “The End”
“Not every man knows what is waiting for him, or what he shall sing / when the ship he is on slips into darkness, there at the end.”
Mapping the Heavens: How Cosmology Shaped Our Understanding of the Universe and the Strange Story of How the Term “Black Hole” Was Born
From Calcutta’s most macabre prison to the ivory towers of Cambridge, by way of ancient mythology and Einstein.
The Will to Doubt: Bertrand Russell on Free Thought and Our Only Effective Self-Defense Against Propaganda
“The protection of minorities is vitally important; and even the most orthodox of us may find himself in a minority some day, so that we all have an interest in restraining the tyranny of majorities.”
Bruce Lee on Self-Actualization and the Crucial Difference Between Pride and Self-Esteem
“The less promise and potency in the self, the more imperative is the need for pride. The core of pride is self-rejection.”
How Do You Know You Exist? A Mind-Bending Animated Homage to Descartes Exploring the Conundrum of Reality
“When you’re awake, you know you’re awake. But when you aren’t, you don’t know you aren’t.”
The Death of a Tree: Eulogy for Friend
“It is worse than boorish, it is criminal, to inflict an unnecessary injury on the tree that feeds or shadows us. Old trees are our parents, and our parents’ parents, perchance.”
Henry Beston on Human Nature and the Power of Community
“Perhaps there is still time to take a stand for the Kingdom of Life; it needs defenders. Perhaps, mighty as its enemies may be, allies will come who are even mightier.”
Legendary Physicist Freeman Dyson on God, Unanswerable Questions, and Why Diversity Is the Ruling Law of the Universe
“Our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so.”
Ben Hecht on Greatness, the Radiance of Realness, and the Rewards of Keeping in Touch with the Soul of Your Childhood
On the crucial difference between superficial success and true greatness.
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