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The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines
“We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message.”
Esperanza Spalding Performs William Blake’s Short Existential Poem “The Fly”
A centuries-old, timeless meditation on chance, suffering, and the improbable glory of life.
Alan Lightman on the Longing for Absolutes in a Relative World and What Gives Lasting Meaning to Our Lives
“We are idealists and we are realists. We are dreamers and we are builders. We are experiencers and we are experimenters. We long for certainties, yet we ourselves are full of the ambiguities of the Mona Lisa and the I Ching. We ourselves are a part of the yin-yang of the world.”
Literary Witches: An Illustrated Celebration of Trailblazing Women Writers Who Have Enchanted and Transformed the World
From Sappho to Toni Morrison, an homage to writers who have wielded the power of the mind in language with uncommon virtuosity.
The Building Blocks of Personhood: Oliver Sacks on Narrative as the Pillar of Identity
“Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives — we are each of us unique.”
The Mangrove and the Meaning of Life: Annie Dillard on What Earth’s Most Otherworldly Trees Teach Us About Being Human
“We don’t know where we belong, but in times of sorrow it doesn’t seem to be here… where space is curved… we’re all going to die, and it seems as wise to stay in bed as budge.”
Meryl Streep Reads “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath
A paean and requiem for new parenthood — the love, the strangeness, the surreal and magnetic disorientation of it.
Nietzsche on Depression and the Rehabilitation of Hope
In praise of “the rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,… of impending adventures, of seas that are open again.”
“A Wrinkle in Time” Author Madeleine L’Engle on Self-Consciousness and the Wellspring of Creativity
“When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.”
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