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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- Articles (11)
- Audio/Video (45)
- Booklets (3)
- Canonical Works (6)
- Essays (9)
- Monographs (19)
- Reference Shelf (2)
Articles (11)
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One thing we can be certain of is that capitalism will end.
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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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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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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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A reminder that sexual violence is quite prevalent in the human realm, even among the educated, upper classes.
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Audio/Video (45)
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A cautionary tale about how hard it is to rise from the bottom to the top–and why the American school system, despite its best efforts, continues to leave an extraordinary amount of talent on the table.
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Cindy: not her real name. I met her
in prison, and people in prison I give
the fake names. I taught her Shakespeare…5 min -
[we] are watching a documentary about home
birth when [you] first feel [neni] kick5 min -
sometimes i want to ask the earth,
was it beautiful here
without us…5 min -
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Millions of years of evolution has led to an incredibly complex communication system.
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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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I wanted to take it home, but in order to do so I’d have to carry the globe.
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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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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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How deeply understanding the dependant origination of the chicken nugget helps us understand the entire modern world and how it got the way it is.
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poets do not [normally] get this kind of attention
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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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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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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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Who—and what—are we?
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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
pretending to be infinite…5 min -
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Embossed tattoos like small notes on sheet music.
Dots and lines, strands and strings5 min
Booklets (3)
Canonical Works (6)
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Insofar as it disintegrates, it is called the ‘world.’
Essays (9)
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Svā Kṣitigarbha, Essence of the Earth, you who nurture all beings
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All-knowing lords, buddhas of past, present and future
Bless this practitioner with thoughts of roaming abroad,
Monographs (19)
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⭐ Recommended250 pages
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83 pages
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464 pages
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Reference Shelf (2)
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A comprehensive list of what being a human involves.
