How the calendar runs our lives. The time of science in the season of love
Do we need a calendar for the season of love?
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03, 2016
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02, 2016
How books lengthen our lives
Umberto Eco explains how books, as our familial elders, deepen our emotional lives across generations. Valentino Bompiani once circulated a saying: “one person who reads is worth two.” It was said by a publisher probably as a clever slogan, but I think it means that writing (and in general language) lengthen one’s life. From the time when [...]
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02, 2016
History and nemesis, the natural and moral sciences
Thoughts of Frederick Douglass on finding the trajectory of moral and social justice in the course of history. There is, in the world's government, a force which has in all ages been recognized, sometimes as Nemesis, sometimes as the judgment of God and sometimes as retributive justice; but under whatever name, all history attests the [...]
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02, 2016
Forgetting Cervantes in Spain (El Pais)
“All the recent Spanish governments have been contemptuous of culture, but the current one is downright aggressive towards it” - Arturo Pérez Reverte
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01, 2016
Medicine, neurology, and Sherlock (BBC)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the doctor from Edinburgh, teaches new doctors about the mind.
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09, 2015
Stop reading: Duke Huan and Pien the Wheelwright
How can we learn from the writings of dead sages?
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07, 2015
Philosophy study — for kids — enhances reading, writing, and math skills (Educational Endowment Foundation, July 2015)
Teaching children as young as nine and ten to have philosophical discussions around topics like truth, fairness and knowledge can improve their progress in maths and reading by an average of two months.