January 2011
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“Believe that there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you...”
– Kobi Yamada
“One always dies too soon, or too late. And yet one’s whole life is...”
– Jean Paul Sartre
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'A new science of creativity' →
What makes creative relationships work? How do two people—who may be perfectly capable and talented on their own—explode into innovation, discovery, and brilliance when working together? These may seem to be obvious questions. Collaboration yields so much of what is novel, useful, and beautiful that it’s natural to try to understand it. Yet looking at achievement through relationships is a...
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'Can meditation change your brain?' →
Can people strengthen the brain circuits associated with happiness and positive behavior, just as we’re able to strengthen muscles with exercise? […] A trained psychologist based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he has become the leader of a relatively new field called contemplative neuroscience —the brain science of meditation. Over the last decade, Davidson and his colleagues have...
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'Forget Regret' →
[…] Nietzsche opposed the notion of free will with adamantine resolve. Remember that he understood the induction of guilt as a religious (Christian in particular) con game by which ordinary people are given (a) demanding and decontextualized moral precepts (thou shalt not do this or that whatever the circumstances) and (b) the idée fixe that they can choose what they will want and what they...
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything [1+1=∞], and two minus...”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“We are much more extensive and powerful in time than we are in the other three...”
– Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living
“For most of us the future is like an attic, unfinished raftered space, filled...”
– Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living
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'Group IQ' →
Instead of seeing groups as nameless and faceless affiliations that swallow up an individual’s identity, the new work on collective behavior suggests that in company lies opportunity. The field of intelligence testing has long been controversial, in part because of concerns that such scores were crude and biased, pigeon-holing people as stupid or smart. In contrast, collective intelligence offers...
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Hot Chip —Playboy
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WatchJason Silva on human singularities
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“My body is a journal in a way. It’s like what sailors used to do, where...”
– Johnny Depp
“We live in a world where we hide to make love, but violence is practiced in the...”
– John Lennon
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