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William Faulkner’s Beautiful Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech About How Artists Help Us Live
William Faulkner’s Beautiful Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech About How Artists Help Us Live

“The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is … to help man endure by lifting his heart.”

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The History of Philosophy, in Superhero Comics
The History of Philosophy, in Superhero Comics

Roof-jumping with Kierkegaard, archaeological adventures with Foucault, wayfinding in the woods with William James, and more.

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The Culture and Costs of Anxiety
The Culture and Costs of Anxiety

“Few people today would dispute that chronic stress is a hallmark of our times or that anxiety has become a kind of cultural condition of modernity.”

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Stephen Hawking’s Charming Children’s Book about Time-Travel, Co-Written with His Daughter
Stephen Hawking’s Charming Children’s Book about Time-Travel, Co-Written with His Daughter

A pig and a supercomputer walk into a black hole…

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An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence
An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence

Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.

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Reinventing the Wheel: A Design History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Information
Reinventing the Wheel: A Design History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Information

How nature’s perfect shape came to contain the imperfections of the human condition.

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Henry James on Memory, Growing Older, and What Happiness Really Means
Henry James on Memory, Growing Older, and What Happiness Really Means

“I have led too serious a life; but that perhaps, after all, preserves one’s youth.”

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How Art Can Save Your Soul
How Art Can Save Your Soul

“Art can be a source of help with our problems — our innermost problems — the problems of the soul.”

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How to Live: Lessons from Montaigne
How to Live: Lessons from Montaigne

Don’t worry about death, pay attention, read a lot, give up control, embrace imperfection.

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The Universe in a Glass of Wine: Richard Feynman on How Everything Connects, Animated
The Universe in a Glass of Wine: Richard Feynman on How Everything Connects, Animated

The Great Explainer reminds us that our divisions of life are artificial and arbitrary.

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