“The mind is its own place,” wrote Milton, “and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.
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Maya Angelou on Writing and Our Responsibility to Our Creative Gifts
“Be a good steward of your gifts,” the poet Jane Kenyon urged in what remains some of the finest advice on writing and life ever committed to words.
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The Double Flame: Octavio Paz on Love
We love to forget ourselves, but also to remember what we are: mortal creatures lustful of meaning, radiant with life, eternally alone and eternally longing for home — home in ourselves and home in each other.
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What’s the Real Origin of “OK”?
How Tom Hanks Became Tom Hanks
The actor—and now novelist—reflects on how he got here, and the other lives he might have lived instead. To hear more audio stories, download the curio app.
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The Next Stage of COVID Is Starting Now
What happens when everyone first gets immunity to the coronavirus as a very young kid? To hear more audio stories, download the Hark app.
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Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last?
Things look calm right now. They may even stay that way—but we won’t know for sure for a good long while. By all official counts—at least, the ones still being tallied—the global situation on COVID appears to have essentially flatlined.
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Danish Wind Pioneer Keeps Battling Climate Change
The contemporary wind power industry, which has spawned hundreds of thousands of spinning rotors generating electricity without putting greenhouse gases into the air, was to a great extent born in a notoriously windy region of Denmark called Jutland.
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Firebrand Big Read: Theological Bankruptcy: An Open Letter to Traditionalists
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?” Luke 14:28 Cost is a fascinating concept. On the one hand, it is a familiar and straightforward concept.
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‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the A.I. systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key to their future.
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