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The Best of Brain Pickings 2017
The courage to be yourself, a Stoic’s antidote to anxiety, how friendship transforms us, in praise of solitude, and more.
Legendary Cosmologist Martin Rees on Science, Religion, and the Future of Post-Human Intelligence
“Fundamental physics shows how hard it is for us to grasp even the simplest things in the world. That makes you quite skeptical whenever someone declares he has the key to some deeper reality.”
The Unity of the Universe: Nobel-Winning Physicist Steven Weinberg on Simplicity and Complexity, Science and Religion, and the Ultimate Question
“We all bear conflicting needs within us. We want both, simplicity and abundance.”
Why Do We Love? An Animated Inquiry Into Romance by Philosopher Skye Cleary
“Love is a passion to be chosen and mastered, not sacrificed to.”
How the Eel Almost Became America’s Thanksgiving Food
“At night, he came home with as many eels as he could well lift in one hand, which our people were glad of. They were fat & sweet.”
Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause
“Freedom is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one’s weight toward this response rather than that one.”
The Nothingness of Personality: Young Borges on the Self
“There is no whole self. It suffices to walk any distance along the inexorable rigidity that the mirrors of the past open to us in order to feel like outsiders, naively flustered by our own bygone days.”
Genes and the Holy G: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Dark Cultural History of IQ and Why We Can’t Measure Intelligence
“If the history of medical genetics teaches us one lesson, it is [that] genes cannot tell us how to categorize or comprehend human diversity; environments can, cultures can, geographies can, histories can.”
Be All Your Selves: Joss Whedon’s 2013 Wesleyan Commencement Address on Embracing Our Inner Contradictions
“Identity is something that you are constantly earning. It is a process that you must be active in.”
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