The (Human) World
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Earth and the primates reshaping it.
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 (9)
- Readings (23)
- Audio/Video (53)
- Reference Shelf (3)
- Related Topics (3)
Books (18)
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Canonical Works (9)
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Insofar as it disintegrates, it is called the âworld.â
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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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One thing we can be certain of is that capitalism will end.
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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 âenvironmentally irresponsible behavior.â
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My tastebuds had been longing for something, and I couldnât quite figure out what it was.
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SvÄ KáčŁitigarbha, 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 shouldnât shy away from activities we enjoy simply because we arenât 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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Didnât 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 storiesâwithout the physicistâs story, without the philosopherâs story, without the artistâs storyâyouâre telling an incomplete narrative.
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We do have something that is very unique about us as animals. And thatâs that we can build alliances with any other species [âŠ] to build loving, supportive, safe relationships to save us from the difficulties of life
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A cautionary tale about how hard it is to rise from the bottom to the topâand why the American school system, despite its best efforts, continues to leave an extraordinary amount of talent on the table.
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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 âOh, nothing much happened before the invention of farming,â 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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MGMT became famous for a song about pretending to be famous.
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Changing the work and how we work is the unpleasant task of dealing with what weâve been denying. It is probably the biggest test in the creative process demanding not only an admission that youâve made a mistake, but that you know how to fix it.
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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 Iâd have to carry the globe.
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[we] are watching a documentary about home
birth when [you] first feel [neni] kick5 min -
Onions are fallible, only
pretending to be infiniteâŠ5 min -
Sometimes the verbs
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Loves  How I  love  youâŠ
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Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming downâŠ
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my first try I made a hitâŠ
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Whoâand whatâare 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.
