The art of self-revision and the courage to change your mind, what it's like to be a falcon, flowers for things you don't know how to say
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19/05/2024
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The door at the end of your suffering, the most important thing to remember about your mother, the poetic science of how cicadas sing
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12/05/2024
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On love and desire, The Universe in Verse book, inside the creative process of beloved artists
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05/05/2024
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The Evening Wrap: Congress promises minimum wage, ₹1 lakh per year to poor families, law on LGBTQIA
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05/04/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: Virginia Woolf's arresting 1927 account of a total solar eclipse
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03/04/2024
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Consonance: Definition and Examples
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27/03/2024
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George Saunders on how to live an unregretting life, Hannah Arendt and the art of beginning afresh, Rachel Carson's lost ode to the science of the sky
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17/03/2024
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Middle age and our search for meaning, Oliver Sacks on the secret life of chocolate, moonlight and the magic of the unnecessary
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10/03/2024
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The other significant others, how to live with remorse and wrest from it defiant joy in living, Alice and the paradox of nature writing
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Wilderness, solitude, and creativity — artist and philosopher Rockwell Kent's century-old meditation on art and life during 7 months in remote Alaska
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07/02/2024
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Henry Miller on the antidote to despair, the enchanting science of cloud chambers and cosmic rays, philosopher Jacob Needleman on time and the soul
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04/02/2024
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The art of solitude – a Buddhist scholar on contemplative practice and creativity
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17/01/2024
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Love and mystery, how groups of birds got their names (\"a murder of crows,\" \"a parliament of owls\"....), what makes life alive
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07/01/2024
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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O'Donohue on Beginnings
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31/12/2023
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Annual Special: Favorite Books of 2023
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20/12/2023
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The paradox of transformative experiences, poetic ecology and the biology of wonder, the sky and the soul
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17/12/2023
thehindu.com
The Evening Wrap: 77% voter turnout in Mizoram, 70% in Chhattisgarh
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07/11/2023
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The Evening Wrap: Supreme Court’s majority view holds that it cannot legalise queer unions
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17/10/2023
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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl's lost lectures on the deepest source of meaning
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06/09/2023
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Quantum pioneer Erwin Schrödinger on bridging Western science and Eastern philosophy to reckon with the mystery of what we are
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30/08/2023
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Audre Lorde on the relationship between eros, creativity, power, and joy; a watercolor ode to the courage of authenticity; Virginia Woolf vs. Hitler
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20/08/2023
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The ant, the grasshopper, and the antidote to the cult of More; Kevin Kelly's life-tested advice on living; the power of being an outsider
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06/08/2023
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The Evening Wrap: Supreme Court paves way for Rahul Gandhi’s return to Parliament
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04/08/2023
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Love's work and the value of getting it wrong, how to be animal (and more fully human), a tender illustrated parable of friendship
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16/07/2023
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How people change, Hermann Hesse on wonder and how to be more alive, a tender modern fable about reversing the Anthropocene
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09/07/2023
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May Sarton on the work of happiness, John Berger on the power of music, the forgotten Scottish philosopher John Macmurray on the key to wholeness
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02/07/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: The paradox of personal transformation
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28/06/2023
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Editor's Pick: Karnataka Elections | Congress snatches BJP’s only South Indian state
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14/05/2023
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Nick Cave's advice on life, May Sarton on writing and gardening, Thoreau on living through loss
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23/04/2023
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How to love the world more: George Saunders on the courage of uncertainty; magnolias and the meaning of life; the art of lying fallow
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16/04/2023
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Editor's Pick: Data Protection Bill to be tabled in Monsoon Session
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12/04/2023
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How to grow re-enchanted with the world and counter burnout, the Dalai Lama's advice to the young, the story of the world's first seed bank
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12/03/2023
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Nick Cave on the art of growing older, Pico Iyer on our search for the sacred, uncommonly beautiful 19th-century Scottish illustrations of birds
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12/02/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: Hermann Hesse on solitude, the value of hardship, the courage to be yourself, and how to find your destiny
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08/02/2023
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Ram Dass on the spiritual lessons of trees and how to be less harsh with yourself (and others); Elie Wiesel on the antidote to overwhelm; on wonder
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22/01/2023
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Midweek pick-me-up: The four Buddhist mantras for turning fear into love
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28/12/2022
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What is time? 200 years of ravishing reflections, from Kierkegaard to Borges to Nina Simone; Margaret Wise Brown's radical life, illustrated; and more
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18/12/2022
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Five Easy Hacks To Spruce Up Your Home Decor - From The Kitchen To The Master Bedroom
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12/12/2022
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The Evening Wrap: Cyclone Mandous to make landfall in north Tamil Nadu around midnight
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09/12/2022
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Storytelling and the art of tenderness, David Bowie on creativity and his advice to artists, the poetic science of the aurora borealis
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27/11/2022
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Editor's Pick: SC orders release of all six Rajiv case convicts
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12/11/2022
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How to be un-dread — Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the key to living fully; C.S. Lewis on our task in troubled times; the woman who saved native song
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05/11/2022
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Nick Cave on self-forgiveness and creativity, how to stop waiting and start living — a jolt from Henry James — and more
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22/10/2022
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Emerson on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means, Henry Miller on the secret to growth in art and in life, a Victorian prophecy of AI
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25/09/2022
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Why are we not better than we are; Alan Lightman on music and the universe; Eric Berne on the true meaning of intimacy (and how to attain it)
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21/08/2022
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Midweek pick-me-up: How to keep love from breaking — wisdom on presence and respect from philosopher Martin Buber
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10/08/2022
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The Evening Wrap: Is there a way to curb ‘irrational freebies’, Supreme Court asks Centre
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26/07/2022
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Higher police officials using personnel as orderlies a clear misconduct: Madras HC
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26/07/2022
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Poet Muriel Rukeyser on the twin root of our confusion and our power in times of turmoil
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29/06/2022
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The Evening Wrap: RBI increases policy rates in sudden move; Sensex plummets 1,300 points
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04/05/2022
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Rumi on love, Iris Murdoch on our search for truth and goodness, Margaret Wise Brown on the puzzle of what makes a thing itself (and you yourself)
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03/04/2022
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Let There Always Be Light: dark matter and the mystery of our mortal stardust with Patti Smith; flowers and the meaning of life with The Little Prince
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27/02/2022
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Rebecca Solnit on trees and the shape of time, Barry Lopez on storytelling, an animated ode to the Hubble and the human hunger to know the universe
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13/02/2022
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A 400-year-old remedy for melancholy, how Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh found himself and lost his self in a library epiphany, and old French fairy tales
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30/01/2022
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Midweek pick-me-up: Thich Nhat Hanh on the four Buddhist mantras for turning fear into love
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26/01/2022
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An illustrated meditation on the deepest meaning of love, Nick Cave on creativity, the myth of originality, and how to find your voice, and a poem
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23/01/2022
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Indian Railways redesignates post of Guard as Train Manager with immediate effect
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15/01/2022
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The antidote to the time-anxiety that savages our lives; the neuroscience of how the body moves the mind and how our feelings shape our consciousness
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26/12/2021
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Dreams, consciousness, and the nature of the universe; Nietzsche on walking and creativity; an illustrated ode to life, loss, and our search for light
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19/12/2021
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Carl Jung on how to live, Rebecca Solnit on Orwell's roses and how nature sustains us, an illustrated French meditation on loss and healing
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12/12/2021
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RE-DELIVERY: The geometry of grief, women in trees, 95-year-old artist Etel Adnan on how to live, how to die, and what gives meaning to our lives
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22/11/2021
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Drawing a tree to see yourself; how the parallels between quantum physics and Hindu philosophy illuminate the central truth of being; viva Corita Kent
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07/11/2021
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How (not) to love, or, unbreaking our hearts by breaking our patterns; Ursula K. Le Guin's love-poem to life, death, and trees; the art of solitude
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24/10/2021
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A painted poem about us and the cosmos; MLK's lost lectures on technology and the 3 ways of resisting the system; how a virus gave tulips their beauty
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10/10/2021
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Love, death and Whitman. George Saunders on the two keys to storytelling. Alan Turing, the world's first digital music, and the poetry of the possible
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03/10/2021
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Midweek pick-me-up: Mary Shelley, writing 200 years ago about a 21st-century world savaged by a deadly pandemic, on what makes life worth living
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08/09/2021
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The jazz of trees, physicist Alan Lightman's poetic lens on time and the antidote to the anxiety of aliveness, Derek Jarman on night and transcendence
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05/09/2021
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The optimism of the oyster, Edward Weston on creativity, Virginia Woolf on the power of nature and the transcendence of a total solar eclipse
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08/08/2021
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Art and aliveness, the ultimate animated primer on the Theory of Everything, the remarkable life and art of pioneering plant ecologist Edith Clements
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25/07/2021
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Do people change, the art of ending painful relationships, Hannah Arendt on what forgiveness (really) means, poet Naomi Shihab Nye's advice on writing
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18/07/2021
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How our loves reveal who we are, an illustrated serenade to aliveness and seeing the world with newborn eyes, and a great forgotten love story
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27/06/2021
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The Evening Wrap: Narwal, Kalita, Tanha walk out of Tihar
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17/06/2021
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Midweek pick-me-up: Seneca on grief and the key to resilience in the face of loss
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26/05/2021
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The Evening Wrap: Defer Covid-19 vaccination by 3 months after recovery, says govt
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19/05/2021
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Aldous Huxley on love, knowledge vs. understanding, and the antidote to our existential helplessness; Neil Gaiman's tribute to a forgotten visionary
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16/05/2021
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The Evening Wrap: SC upholds HC order on oxygen supply to Karnataka
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07/05/2021
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Gardening as resistance, an ornithologist on the spirituality of science and nature as worship, a Nobel-winning poet's ode to our cosmic humanity
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25/04/2021
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Questions about YC
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31/03/2021
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Alan Watts on love, the essence of freedom, and the antidote to fear; Eula Biss on immunity, sanity, and health as communal trust; Newton and trees
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21/03/2021
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A lost Frida Kahlo love letter; Darwin's greatest heartbreak and our search for meaning in loss; learning to listen to the secret language of nature
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14/02/2021
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The decades-old classic is suddenly the ultimate pandemic poem, Jeanette WInterson on how storytelling transforms us, a love story of science
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07/02/2021
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Loops, language, the paradoxical loneliness of \"I love you,\" and what keeps love alive; Einstein on the political power of art; expressionist science
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24/01/2021
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Why we like what we like, an illustrated meditation on how to live with our human fragility, Toni Morrison's recipe for sanity, joy, and self-love
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10/01/2021
thehindu.com
The Evening Wrap: SC says farmers have a constitutional right to protest, but urges talks
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17/12/2020
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The 4 Buddhist mantras for turning fear into love; how Lincoln drew poetry and power from his suicidal depression; David Byrne, Maira Kalman, optimism
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06/12/2020
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Muriel Rukeyser on the wellspring of our power and aliveness in turbulent times, a lyrical illustrated rewilding of the human heart, and more
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22/11/2020
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Whitman on what makes a great person and what wisdom really means, Iris Murdoch on how art helps us reimagine freedom and our inner worlds, and more
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15/11/2020
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The science of how alive you really are, with a side of Turing and trees; Audre Lorde on poetry and the courage to feel as an antidote to fear; more
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25/10/2020
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Bruce Lee on death and the key to being an artist of life, a Japanese illustrated serenade to change, Nobel laureate Louise Glück's love poem to life
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18/10/2020
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Midweek pick-me-up: Life, loss, and the wisdom of rivers
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03/09/2020
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Midweek pick-me-up: Iris Murdoch (born 101 years ago today) on storytelling, why art is essential for democracy, and the key to good writing
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16/07/2020
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Spell to be said against hatred, the illustrated story of astronaut Ronald McNair's childhood civil disobedience, Octavio Paz on otherness and courage
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07/06/2020
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Edward Gorey's illustrated 1969 poem about the secret of true love, a stunning musical tribute to Rachel Carson, Ann Druyan on wonder and the sacred
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31/05/2020
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Viktor Frankl's lost lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find life's deepest meaning; James {NAME} on keeping the light alive & more
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24/05/2020
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Astronaut Leland Melvin reads Neruda's love letter to Earth's forests, a color spectrum of sadnesses as a portal to more vibrant aliveness, and more
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03/05/2020
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Mary Shelley, writing 200 years ago about a pandemic-ravaged world, on what makes life worth living and nature's beauty as a lifeline to sanity
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19/04/2020
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Midweek pick-me-up: Against the illusion of separateness – Neruda's stunning Nobel speech about our shared belonging across space and solitude
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09/04/2020
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Midweek pick-me-up: Zadie Smith on optimism and despair
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02/04/2020
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A touching animated short film about depression and what it takes to recover the light of being; poet Lisel Mueller on what gives meaning to our lives