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Audio Recording Of Stanley Kubrick's Most Revealing Interview
November 27, 1965: A Rare Recording of Stanley Kubrick’s Most Revealing Interviewby Maria Popova“People react primarily to direct experience and not to abstractions; it is very rare to find anyone who...
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Einstein: Why We Are Alive?
by Maria PopovaThe meaning of human existence in five lines.Given my soft spot for big thinkers’ answers to young people’s questions about life, I was thrilled when reader Dave Anderson shared the...
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Conscious Ignorance: Not-Knowing Drives Progress; Certainty Stymies Knowledge
Westboro Baptist Churchhttp://www.has.vcu.edu/wrs/profiles/WestboroBaptistChurch.htm***Self-Certainty is most intense among religious believers. It is the reason why Pascal observed: "Men never do evil...
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Nelson Mandela Moving Inauguration Speech And Wisdom from His Autobiography
RIP, Nelson Mandela: Madiba’s Moving Inauguration Speech and Timeless Wisdom from His Autobiographyby Maria Popova“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we...
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"How Should We Live: Great Ideas From The Past For Everyday Life"
How Should We Live: History’s Forgotten Wisdom on Love, Time, Family, Empathy, and Other Aspects of the Art of Livingby Maria Popova“How to pursue the art of living has become the great quandary of our...
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Evolution: The Curious Case Of The Avocado Which Should Be Extinct
"Avocado" derives from the Nahua/Aztec word "ahuacatl" meaning "testicle."***Wikipedia's "Avocado" Entryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado***A Ghost of Evolution: The Curious Case of the Avocado,...
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J. R. R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy
Tolkien1916http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien***J. R. R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”by Maria Popova“Creative...
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Ohio Satanists Seek Statue Alongside Ten Commandments Outside Statehouse
STORY HIGHLIGHTSA Ten Commandments monument currently sits outside the StatehouseOkla. Satanists believe if one religion should be protected, so should all othersState Rep: 'You put [Satanists] under...
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5 Most Uplifting Stories Of The Week
Newser EditorsDecember 8, 2013(Photo: Gabriel Bouys, AFP/Getty Images)Tips factor into this week's list more than once, but in very different ways:1. After guy steals their tips, workers decide to help...
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New Yorker Cartoon: The New Jobs Report
***"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html
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The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. My Submission For December 9, 2013
The chairman thought it would be good if directors got real jobs.
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Researchers Discover Massive Freshwater Reserves Beneath The Oceans
According to a news release from Flinders University, researchers have found massive reserves of freshwater beneath oceans, offering new chances to prevent an emerging global water crisis. They...
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Michael Pollan: Bad Food Is Costing America Its Economic Health
Michael Pollan (Credit: AP/Virginia Mayo)"The Omnivore's Dilemma" author on diabetes' strain on Obamacare, and why our eating habits are worse than everJASON MARK, EARTH ISLAND JOURNALMichael Pollan’s...
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Travels With Right-Wing Nuts. My Road Trip With Paul Ryan And Michelle Bachmann
EnlargeMichele Bachmann, Paul RyanJanesville is boring.It’s Nov. 4, just after 11 a.m. The sky is the color of steel, the air hibernal. I’m walking past Rep. Paul Ryan’s district office. Except for...
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How Did Jameis Winston Evade a Rape Charge? It's Carte Blanche For The...
Would things be turning out differently for Jameis Winston if he weren't the star quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles?EMILY BAZELONEmily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor and the Truman Capote...
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Bacon. Yum!
Alan: Over the years, I have been hard on bacon, the greasiest food Americans commonly consume - a substance that lubricates every surface it touches save the inner walls of blood vessels whereupon...
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Tom Toles Cartoon: Bare Minimum Wage
"Politics, Economics And The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html"Pope Francis Links"...
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E.J. Dionne: The View From The Bottom. Return Of The Working Class Hero
By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: December 8, 2013For more than three decades, working-class Americans receded as cultural heroes, replaced in the popular imagination by swashbuckling entrepreneurs,...
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Obamacare's Great Guarantee: If You Lose Your Health-Care Plan, You Can Get...
The day is coming when red state obstructionists will be reviled.And soon.Prior to Election Day, 2014***"Red State Moocher...
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