You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive
The brilliant physicist and nobel laureate Richard Feynman lost his wife and high-school...
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Category: Truth
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Contracrostipunctus Achilles has come to visit his friend and jogging companion, the Tortoise, at...
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The Old Patagonian Express
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. What’s...
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The Furious Passage of James Baldwin
He was about ten, and puny for his age, when two Harlem patrolmen stopped him in an empty lot....
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Probability, Time and the Heat of Black HolesOne of the biggest mysteries in modern physics is...
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The Most Beautiful of Theories In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You...
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I Thought My Father Was God
An Average Sadness It is with small shame that I move to turn on the radio today. Radio is the...
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The Antidote to the Malady of Materialism
It is this mass of unclean world that we have superimposed on the clean world that we cannot bear....
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
Six Trends. To give some coherence to the many developments that make up our species’ retreat from...
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Strength to Love
Jesus called the rich man a fool because he failed to realize his dependence on God. He talked as...
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The Gay Science
The Madman. Have you ever heard of the madman who on a bright morning lighted a lantern and ran to...
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