The (Human) World
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American astronaut Christina Koch is helped out of a Soyuz spacecraft by Russian officers minutes after landing in a remote part of Kazakhstan on Feb. 6, 2020. Koch returned to Earth safely after a record-breaking 328 days in space, showing what humans can accomplish when they work together. Photo courtesy of NASA.
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- Books (18)
- Canonical Works (10)
- Readings (27)
- Audio/Video (57)
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- Related Topics (4)
Books (18)
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Insofar as it disintegrates, it is called the ‘world.’
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Readings (27)
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In which the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, acquainting himself with the customs and dialects of previously unknown and unchronicled folk … and other material pertaining to the business and technology of Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables, as well as an account of the laying of the longest wire on Earth
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Everything is always at once a subject and object
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… the belief that we humans occupy a realm of being separate from the rest of nature encourages what he all-too-politely refers to as “environmentally irresponsible behavior.”
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Without the pressure of a life cut short, Keith Haring’s art might never have been as deep as it was. Yet that would have been a good trade.
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My tastebuds had been longing for something, and I couldn’t quite figure out what it was.
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Svā Kṣitigarbha, Essence of the Earth, you who nurture all beings
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A reminder that sexual violence is quite prevalent in the human realm, even among the educated, upper classes.
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Although sucking feels uncomfortable, we shouldn’t shy away from activities we enjoy simply because we aren’t great at them.
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What kind of creatures are we? And how should we relate to each-other?
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Didn’t you know beforehand how the world of men is? Sometimes we have to let go of the things we like.
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Without all of those stories—without the physicist’s story, without the philosopher’s story, without the artist’s story—you’re telling an incomplete narrative.
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We do have something that is very unique about us as animals. And that’s that we can build alliances with any other species […] to build loving, supportive, safe relationships to save us from the difficulties of life
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Paying attention to the world around us is so difficult, and yet so important, in the era of social media.
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The whole idea that all of this can be locked up in a little box and say ‘Oh, nothing much happened before the invention of farming,’ is just beginning to look kind of silly.
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… stories of humans encountering non-human intelligences
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… poets do not [normally] get this kind of attention
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Visitors would pay ten cents to enter a spacious room full of glass boxes that were incubators with tiny premature babies on display.
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Changing the work and how we work is the unpleasant task of dealing with what we’ve been denying. It is probably the biggest test in the creative process demanding not only an admission that you’ve made a mistake, but that you know how to fix it.
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Staying in your comfort zone isn’t always the best option.
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Millions of years of evolution has led to an incredibly complex communication system.
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Embossed tattoos like small notes on sheet music.
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Cindy: not her real name. I met her
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I wanted to take it home, but in order to do so I’d have to carry the globe.
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[we] are watching a documentary about home
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A world’s too little for thy tent, a grave too big for me (2019) – Connie Voisine and Tracy K. Smith
Onions are fallible, only
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Sometimes the verbs
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Loves How I love you…
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Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down…
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my first try I made a hit…
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Who—and what—are we?
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sometimes i want to ask the earth,
was it beautiful here
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… the most up-to-date, evidence-based information on science and health questions that affect the decisions we make each day
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A comprehensive list of what being a human involves.
