Handwriting, typing, word-processing, texting: an evolution, or devolution, of understanding.
How the shift from handwriting to technological word-processing indicates a loss of language's deeper meaning.
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12, 2017
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11, 2017
On American reading, technology, and intellectual life
How American society limits our reading and concentration, also by technology.
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11, 2017
Language, emotion, and the world around us (David Robson, BBC Future)
Languages, in consort with others, foster emotional awareness.
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11, 2017
The dawn and dusk of the humanities (Marilynne Robinson, NY Review of Books)
Do the humanities exhaust themselves in utility?
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11, 2017
The joy of writing (Sirin Pilay, Harvard Heath Blog)
Writing may provide a release to anxiety.
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10, 2017
Doubting wisely to achieve soundness of mind and body
Why doubt can lead to self-assurance and independence of judgement, which is manifest in one's outward demeanor.
19
10, 2017
Art, beauty, and freedom
Finding personality in the spirit of freedom through beauty.
14
10, 2017
Personality in the modern machine age
Personality is a struggle for, and achievement of, inwardness.
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10, 2017
Robert Frost reads about science, the mind, and the march of years.
Robert Frost on science and our flights from reality.
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10, 2017
The mockery of Science and the flight to outer space
Science and its mockery of the human drive for outer limits.