10/31/21
Richard Halliburton Lived Several Lives in One
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This art-deco image of a pilot, scarf flying over a vintage biplane, evokes for me an entire era, and one man helps capture that era. A wh...
8/27/21
Pain & Pleasure: The Lobster Reconsidered & David Foster Wallace
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A few years back I read about George, a 140 year-old lobster that did not wind up on somebody's dinner plate. Instead, he wa...
8/9/21
Mercedes de Acosta Met Ramana Maharshi: Here Lies The Heart
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Descended from the legendary Dukes of Alba, daughter in a wealthy Cuban family, Mercedes de Acosta was born in 1893 in New York, ...
4/5/21
The Revolt of Pancho Barnes
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Born to immense wealth, Pancho had an arranged marriage to a minister. Newspapers proclaimed the marriage of a socialite to a...
3/11/21
Don't Forget This: The Triumphal Parade of Ancient Rome
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In ancient Rome, a general, many to become emperors, presided over The Triumph (Triumphus), a victory parade through the str...
2/24/21
Meditation, The Narrator, and Self-Therapy
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The years have piled up on me and through them I have at times been happy, have been sad, have suffered, have been calm. Over th...
6/23/20
Buddha & Absolutes: Hindu Thought & The View from Nowhere
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I found an interesting article at the Skeptic site, called The View from Nowhere or Somewhere? Maja Caron reviews a novel by Reb...
1/12/20
What Is Time? Julian Barbour's Answer
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Tell me what time is. You cannot. The future does not exist, nor does the past. Nor the present. You cannot live in the presen...
12/7/19
Ota Benga: Man in A Zoo Cage
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In September 1906 a caged human being was put on display in the Bronx Zoo. A sign on the cage read: The African Pygmy, "...
6/11/19
Belief Shapes Behavior, Free Will or Not
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Whether You Think Free Will or Determinism, Belief Shapes Behavior Popular wisdom has it that everybody will do right or wro...
5/6/19
Evolution Didn't Design You To Be Happy
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Happiness and Evolution When people are asked what they really want out of life most respond that they want to be happy. They...
4/21/19
Ben Underwood Clicks His Tongue To See
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"To society he's blind," said Ben's mother, "but that doesn't make him handicapped. He just can'...
4/9/19
Jaron Lanier Disagrees with Dawkins' Memes and Kurzweil's Singularity
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Jaron Lanier Disagrees with Richard Dawkins' Meme Theory and Ray Kurzweil's Singularity As a goat farmer, Jaron Lanier...
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